Nadine Labaki Quotes

It's only normal for me to work with my family because I think they are talented and because there's a warmth when I'm working. As a filmmaker, sometimes you are very fragile. You are in a very fragile situation most of the time. I think it's important to be surrounded by people you just get along with.

Nadine Labaki

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: lebanese
  • Birth: February 18, 1974

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Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.

Jill Bennett

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I almost moved into a place over a funeral parlor. My father said, 'That's just too macabre,' but I thought I'd be embracing my mortality. I told him it would keep me grounded - like when people get skull tattoos.

Jennifer Connelly

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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

John Henry Newman

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You start at a young age, going on auditions, and you think you did a good job and expect to get that role, and you don't, and it's a letdown, a disappointment. So you tell yourself to just do the work and disconnect, because you have no control over the outcome.

Michael B. Jordan

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The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men.

Michael Douglas

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And it's also producing a growth in debt to the United States that will weight very heavily in a country that has to address issues like having more old people to be covered by Social Security or by pension in the future.

Rodrigo Rato

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'Dirty Jobs' is maybe the simplest show in the history of TV, with the possible exception of 'The Gong Show'. I go around the country; we've shot in every state. And we spend a day with people who do jobs that are dirty or dangerous or ridiculous or difficult.

Mike Rowe

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Whether you're replacing one appliance that's seen better days, or many because you're moving or renovating, you probably know to look for the Energy Star label. That's good advice.

Jean Chatzky

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Humour is used in struggle and solving difficult things, and I relish that tradition.

Debra Granik

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It's interesting to hear what somebody does when they have no interest in playing by the rules.

Brad Paisley

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The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home.

Bruce Springsteen

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Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

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