Atom Egoyan Quotes

The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

Atom Egoyan

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FatherSimplePersonMoreHumanOwn

I don't mean to be trite about abortion, but I do feel it's a woman's body, and I don't think anyone should take away her choice of having or not having a child.

Joanna Cassidy

WomanChildThinkFeelBodyChoice

American actors are very different to British actors who have generally studied and been brought up culturally with the sense that the writer is the star and that their job is to serve the writing. Whereas Hollywood actors are brought up to believe that the actor is the star, and everything and everybody is in the service of them.

Joe Wright

ServiceJobWritingBelieveAmerican

In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.

John Henrik Clarke

HistoryPeopleViewLookClosing

People can live without a Facebook account: my 13-year-old daughter has cancelled her account because it's not cool anymore.

Michael Birch

LiveDaughterPeopleCoolWithout

Perhaps misguidedly, I always admire the people who are so polished.

Rosamund Pike

PeopleAdmireAlwaysWhoPolished

I'd like to get a chance to wear two different hats in the business. I also think it would be really great to do an adaptation of a great novel.

Matt Bomer

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Poll after poll shows that consumers want the right to know what's in their food and how it's produced. Because our food choices have such a significant impact on our lives, this is a trend that should be welcomed, not frustrated.

Mike Pompeo

FoodChoicesImpactKnowWantRight

I wish you could see some of the girls I have genuinely had crushes on in my life. They're not the girls you would assume.

Chris Evans

LifeMy LifeWishYouI WishSee

I think a lot of directors over the years have cast me because they see something of another generation in me: you know, certain people look like they've come from the 19th century. Because I have classical background I suppose that is more suitable to patriarchal roles and easily infuses them.

Christopher Plummer

PeopleMeThinkGenerationYouLook

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

LoveTimeMenWorldGoodnessSame

It's not onstage as often anymore, but whenever I got anxious, I used to talk a lot more, and I wouldn't even know what I was saying... it was so bad. If I just talk myself through something, even if it's just talking about nothing, it usually gets me out of it.

Sharon Van Etten

MyselfMeSayingTalkingBadKnow

It's hard to imagine anything more interesting than learning how we're woven into the enormous tapestry of existence. Where did our universe come from? How special is our world, and how special are we? We allocate tens of billions of dollars annually to NASA, NSF and academia in search of the answers.

Seth Shostak

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