Depicting a terrorist act in a film isn't going to incite terrorism.
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IRWIN REDLENER The new age of terrorism isn't on the battlefield: it's in your own backyard. Whether it'...
BILL GOLDBERG To act well isn't an easy thing.
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN The fact that a terrorist was killed, and it doesn't matter if it was in Dubai or Gaza, is good ...
TZIPI LIVNI oh, oh GreenHollyWood says with a smile and even and angry sounds like devil who comes from hell... ...
DEYTH BANGER How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Isn't that the definition of a star? Someone who can get a film made?
BRUCE ROBINSON Indie film isn't dead, it just grew up.
KEVIN SMITH Anyone who supports terrorism, anyone who sees terrorism as a legitimate means, anyone who uses terr...
MILOS ZEMAN Life is a tightrope to keep your balance you have to keep on going. If you fall off it is game over....
GARY F EVANS... People associate terrorism with Sept. 11, (2001,) but terrorism means to incite terror in people, wh...
DEBORAH CARLEY We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will ...
NARENDRA MODI Prevention is always better than cure and that applies not only in health but it also applies in ter...
MR HOWARD It's very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help ...
WALID MUALLEM I had been nominated for an Academy Award for my performance as Sandy Lester, Dustin Hoffman's n...
TERI GARR If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he...
FRANK A. CLARK Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn....
SAMANTHA MORTON Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don'...
VICTORIA JACKSON The fight against international terrorism isn't just a fight against a bunch of misguided extrem...
VIKAS SWARUP Acting's all about the confidence you exude, especially on film. I mean, nervousness isn't a...
JOHN C. REILLY These provisions of the USA Patriot Act are essential to our efforts in the war on terrorism, and th...
ALBERTO R. GONZALES The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME I am politically incorrect, that's true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terror...
MEL GIBSON Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. ...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 per...
SPIKE LEE My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up wit...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE Cancer isn't going to slow me down.
ETHAN ZOHN Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn't a...
ANG LEE Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me j...
VICTORIA PRATT A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.
JENNIFER ANISTON Roughly speaking, when you are dealing with business firms operating in a competitive system, you ca...
RONALD COASE a despicable act by a bloodthirsty terrorist.
ARIEL SHARON When the script for 'The Wrestler' kept coming to me I said, This movie is so good if you pu...
HULK HOGAN The message is just an awful one: Support the United States, help out on terrorism, and then we're g...
BILL REINSCH I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it...
ULRICH BECK He was a terrorist, he remains a terrorist and he will be viewed as such, ... Notwithstanding any de...
VINCENT BROOKS Popularity isn't my compass. Unless it can help one to act, to be understood... that's what ...
EMMANUEL MACRON I'm very confident my health isn't going to allow me to be a good player, especially in the ...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
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ERIN CAHILL I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people...
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IAN MCKELLEN Unfortunately, we have seen terrorist groups use social media to spread hateful propaganda, to recru...
TED DEUTCH Attacking terrorist financing cuts off the lifeblood of terrorism,
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ETHEL WATERS It's cheesy, but having a pimple or a bad hair day isn't going to matter in five years. I do...
ABIGAIL BRESLIN The past isn't going to get you to your goal.
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EMRAAN HASHMI I don't think you're going to be seeing the U.S. employing large army divisions to deal with...
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GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.
ROBERT H. SCHULLER My life isn't going to be about Jar Jar Binks.
AHMED BEST Isn't there a danger with Tweeting, like drunk dialing? Isn't there a drunk Tweeting danger?
JULIANNA MARGULIES I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, musi...
DARREN ARONOFSKY Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don...
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME My life isn't just one genre. It's a romance one minute, an action movie the next - it's...
JAMES GUNN That's like making fun of a maniac because his brain isn't completely right, because he isn&...
ALICE COOPER Weight isn't a factor in nutritional health.
MELISSA ETHERIDGE The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides f...
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OPHELIA LOVIBOND We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up t...
TED DANSON First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't an...
CHARLES S. DUTTON My comedy isn't going to solve problems; I'm not that deep.
GARY OWENS A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all...
L. NEIL SMITH If you're a terrorist, you shouldn't be able to buy a gun.
BILL NELSON When you realize that life isn't fair, you don't act out, you don't get overly wasted, y...
DAVID HASSELHOFF The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.
WILT CHAMBERLAIN The key proposal is the intention of the person who acts or by their statements seems to incite othe...
BILL RAMMELL If there isn't a deep core reason for a film existing, what is the point? For me to be known as ...
NEILL BLOMKAMP It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or...
FRED WILSON Because in Australia there really isn't a lot to do. There aren't a lot of opportunities.
RADHA MITCHELL I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a s...
BARBARA MANDRELL Star-crossed lovers who have a destiny that isn't necessarily going to work in their favor - tha...
KELLY ASBURY The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
AYN RAND American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, w...
ARLEN SPECTER Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
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AHMED RESSAM Every lethal terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11 has been carried out by an American ci...
PETER L. BERGEN There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.
ELLIOTT ABRAMS Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don...
KRISTEN WIIG I don't want to be viewed as a womaniser or whatever. I don't like going crazy crazy, I like...
HARRY STYLES Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any di...
LARRY HAGMAN Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.
MIKE DITKA Isn't it fun to be nuts? Isn't it fun to be crazy?
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ALGERNON SYDNEY A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... th...
ALGERNON SYDNEY In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology...
SYDNEY BRENNER I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
SYDNEY SMITH It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch
understanding.
SYDNEY SMITH That knuckle-end of England--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and
sulphur.
SYDNEY SMITH I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the Lords
to stop the progress of reform, rem...
SYDNEY SMITH Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that...
SYDNEY SMITH The lens is the actor's best critic... showing his mind more clearly than on the stage. You can ...
SYDNEY GREENSTREET It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
SYDNEY SMITH Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature inten...
SYDNEY SMITH I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.
SYDNEY SMITH My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was
actually twelve miles from a lemon.
SYDNEY SMITH Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of ex...
SYDNEY SMITH A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good co...
SYDNEY SMITH The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact ...
SYDNEY SMITH