Roland Joffe Quotes

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.

Roland Joffe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: November 17, 1945

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There's something wonderful about taking a tag off a pair of socks, off a shirt, off a jacket. I really think that it has to do with my wanting to give myself all the perks that there are. It's part of my psychosis.

Jerry Lewis

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Just to continue a space program because it's a space program? No, I don't think we have an obligation for that.

John Glenn

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It's good to be noticed.

Andreja Pejic

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When you're a soul singer, I'm singing a lot of songs about love and relationships that I think a lot of girls really relate to. For whatever reason, that seems to get 'em excited. The DJ, everyone always says the DJ gets all the chicks, but that's never been my experience.

Mayer Hawthorne

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As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.

Mia Wasikowska

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It's not easy for most girls to stand in next-to-nothing and listen to photographers and stylists commenting on how they look.

Alyssa Sutherland

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When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away.

Stewart Brand

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No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.

Tony Visconti

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It was very hard breaking into the film industry in Britain. I had been to art school, and I was painting and doing commercials. And I did some of the very first rock videos.

Tony Scott

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I don't know if there ever has been anyone in the NFL who plays his position as well as Steve Tasker.

Marv Levy

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I tried to make up for being 5 ft. 3 in. by affecting a strut and adopting the voice of a much bigger man... dating tall, beautiful women... But nothing I could do, after Ava had left me, would add a single inch to my height.

Mickey Rooney

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At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, powerful protagonists that audiences can identify with, and a dramatic arc that is able to capture and hold viewers' intellectual and emotional attention.

Julia Bacha

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