Urs Fischer Quotes
I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
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The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.
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I miss my parents. But still, my granddaughter, my daughter, my grandma, you know, so it's very important for me. You lost your parents, but a new baby comes. It's like the cycle of fashion.
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Golf was never a religion to me.
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Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.
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I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.
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I had long hair when I was a teenager.
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People say never work with children and animals. I actually like working with Oliver Bell, and working with a rat really opens possibilities to you because you don't know how it's going to be. It's just a rat, so you can just react to this rat being a rat, if that makes sense.
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When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
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If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
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I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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We discovered in that depressing, hellish place, where death was our constant companion, that we loved each other. We killed for each other, we died for each other, and we wept for each other. And in time we came to love each other as brothers. In battle our world shrank to the man on our left and the man on our right and the enemy all around. We held each other’s lives in our hands and we learned to share our fears, our hopes, our dreams as readily as we shared what little else good came our way.
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In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.
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I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do.
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Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.
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I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
