Avi Arad Quotes
On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.
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Caffeine is a good thing.
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My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
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Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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I think it's very hard to find a good friend. That's why I'm so lucky to have two sisters, because they're my best friends, and they have to be with me forever. They're stuck with me.
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I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
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For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.
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It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
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That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.
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I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.
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Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'
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He who stops being better stops being good.
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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.
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I read the script for 'Somnia' when I was filming 'Oculus,' and I remember calling my manager going, 'I really need to do this movie,' and he's like, 'How about you finish this one first and then you see it?' I was like, 'I don't need to. I don't need to. You need to read this. I need to do this movie. The script is very good.'
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You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
Garry Kasparov
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Even though I've won numerous titles and an Olympic gold medal, there are still so many faults in my performance that I can honestly hardly bear to watch the videos back.
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Edible names are what drives me as a musician. My next band will be called the Hot Dogs.
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The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When I'm home, I'm a pretty green fellow.
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If you kill me, you kill yourself." [...] He only wanted to convey to Janegg the truth of ahimsa, which is that all beings were connected to each other in the deepest way and thus it was impossible to harm another without harming oneself.
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I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.
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On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.
