"Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources."
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"Sometimes Allah punishes and sometimes men have to do it, and it is a wise man who knows if it's Allah's turn or his own."
"You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in."
"f you're making the scene as a director, you're looking for alternatives, once you've got to that place that's very much in Rowan's [Atkins] head, to see if you can take it further, in some places. Sometimes you do absolutely know there's something there. You just feel it in your bones."
"[When making movies I] set out to be authentic to [myself] and to put it down the way [I] feel it and know it and interpret it. And then others sometimes key into it and get it."
"A life like Nixon's is filled with shame and filled with glory. He loved to quote Teddy Roosevelt: "He was a man; sometimes right, sometimes wrong, but he was a man." I love that line."
"A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position."
"Sometimes a great example is necessary to all the public functionaries of the state."
"Sometimes it seems to me I've known so many men that the FBI ought to come to me first to compare fingerprints."
"I've personally been on the outside sometimes. But I was - I personally was never persecuted especially in the way in which sharing my own experiences."
"I'd like to be a bit less pale because I feel like I look sort of ill sometimes."
"Sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit... weird."
"The secrecy thing has gotten to be more and more prevalent in films, and maybe that's good. It's nice to go see a film and not know anything about it. Sometimes I feel like we know too much about films."
"Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words."
"Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve."
"It really really sunk into me when I went to Europe and they take rap so much more serious than we do here. That was the first time I ever heard rap considered folk music. And sometimes somebody will make you understand like, "Hey, what you doin' is serious, don't play it lightly 'cause it's changin' my life.""
"You learn that Hollywood has its own rules, sometimes. And it's tricky, and sometimes you can't see what's coming around the corner."
"Sometimes just watching a person doing the things they would only do at home lets you know who they really are."
"Someone once said, "I don't lie because then I don't have to remember anything." I've told white lies a lot. Sometimes when you tell stories you'll embellish them a little, especially with foxhole humor."
"Sometimes we hurt one another without realizing it."