John Pilger Quotes

I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.

John Pilger

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I wanna work with filmmakers that love, are enthusiastic about their process - about the process - about their process and the environment of inclusion and collaboration. I want the people to be able to trust me, and I wanna be able to trust them.

John David Washington

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I've been to China and Russia, and I don't know anything about Chinese or Soviet relations.

Matt Stone

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If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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One of the things about acting is you can always use your life. You have to recall how you are and how people are and how you relate.

John Ritter

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God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt. There is no God but this God.

Stanley Hauerwas

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Lily Tomlin was one of the early comedy greats who influenced my courage to be the person I am.

Tracee Ellis Ross

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I remember seeing this picture my mother had of Dick Clark. It didn't inspire me to be an actor or anything, but when I did 'American Dreams' with Dick Clark, my mother came out, and she showed him this picture of them that was taken 35 years earlier. It was great.

Tom Verica

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I guess I can be stereotypical and say that Asians are very cheap.

Mirai Nagasu

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The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.

Peter Conrad

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I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced I had a German sense of humour and the other half were sure it was British. They are probably still arguing about it now.

Tibor Fischer

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As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.

Thomas Haden Church

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Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely problematized when you start applying large sums of money to art objects. That's where it all starts to get a bit sticky.

Tim Crouch

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