Atom Egoyan Quotes
I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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I remember doing one of those computer careers tests. It told me I'd make an ideal HGV lorry driver because I've got 100 per cent spatial awareness. I'd be able to back them into tight parking spots.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.
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My best time is a 3:20 in Paris in 2010, and I trained to try for a 3-hour marathon in New York, but Hurricane Sandy hit, and it was canceled.
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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I only started playing piano because I had chickenpox when I was about 14 and wasn't allowed to play my drums for a whole week... We had a piano in the house, so I just sat down and played that instead.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Don't ever give up. You gotta keep trying, and never give up.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch.
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You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.
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Indeed, the highest honors are those granted by organizations who understand the necessity of providing our nation's children with access to technology in an environment which fosters the type of learning that will lead us into the next century.
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I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.
