Aristotle said time is a measure of change, and this movie is about changing in time, through time, while remaining the same person. That's a philosophical paradox and a moral dilemma. But 'Casablanca' says it's possible. You can have both. That's what it means. And that's my wish for you: that you would have both.
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Related I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX 'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, ... IRA GLASS Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It'... JOAN JETT You win a race, the next race it's a question mark. Are you still the best or not? That's wh... MICHAEL SCHUMACHER You hear about quality time a lot but I really think that quantity time with a person is really what... JOSH TURNER This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I ha... WENDELL BERRY Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it. CHANDRA WILSON I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. EDIE CAMPBELL I'm that person who says, 'No matter what the problem is, there's a solution.' That&... MIRANDA KERR Every movie goes through that U-shape where you start with 'Oh that's a great idea. I love i... JENNIFER YUH NELSON Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH I think the best compliment you can receive is not, 'Oh, that was really funny,' but, 'I... ERIK GRIFFIN When you're with another actor who's also been through five hours of prosthetic makeup, and ... ALEXANDRA DADDARIO It's what you do every time. You isolate what you know, and you create a mental image of what yo... ROBERT FORSTER Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That's the real point behind ... MALCOLM X Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a stra... MICHELLE WILLIAMS It's something that I love about this business and that scares me about this business, but in a ... CANDICE ACCOLA It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON I always liked the visuals to be choice and at the same time minimalist. And, I love black boxes. Af... HAROLD PRINCE I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking ... BARRY LEVINSON It's much like playing jazz, flying. It's multitasking in real time. You have a number of in... AARON DIEHL I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato... ISAIAH WASHINGTON To fans in a festival setting it's like a picnic. You want to have a good time with your friends... TOM ARAYA A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it... FELICITY JONES Scenes change all the time. Scenes will change while you're shooting them, and you just have to ... YARA SHAHIDI Putting on a movie is like going to war - for me, at least. It's all about time; time is money, ... LEE DANIELS Robert Englund's done an amazing job over the years playing Freddy. Everybody that's a fan o... JACKIE EARLE HALEY I have to say that when I first started singing, I didn't think it was a very noble profession. ... LESLEY GORE The truth doesn't change. It was the same when Moses got the Ten Commandments as it is today. Th... DMX Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in th... PATRICIA HEATON About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN You don't sleep anymore, but at the same time, you have this strength that comes from this life ... MARION COTILLARD A lot of times in this business, it's so transitory - it's just 10 weeks here or there on a ... HELENA BONHAM CARTER Acting was a lot like football. When you're a DB and you're one on one with a receiver, you&... BRIAN J. WHITE It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON When there's ever a breakthrough, a true breakthrough, you can go back and find a time period wh... BURT RUTAN The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then ... HARRISON FORD If you go to a movie and it's a great experience, the experience at the end of it is always like... CARLTON CUSE What's the best part of a movie? I love to know what my name is. It's just so fun. That'... ELLE FANNING It's very true that you can be both selfless and selfish at the same time. What we tend towards,... HUGH GRANT There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, ... TATE TAYLOR You can stay too long in a job, that's for sure. But by the same token, in the 12 years I have b... JEFFREY R. IMMELT You want a friend who's going to tell you the truth. That's what it's about. If you don&... DONALD DRIVER It sucks to be the runner-up because I've been the runner-up for a long time in my career. I wou... JASON DOHRING That's what's great about the horror genre is that you're getting a load of people toget... WES CRAVEN What's interesting is that you can have a set that's very calm, very smooth, very cooperativ... TOBIN BELL All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all ess... MARGARET ATWOOD I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie ... DANIEL CRAIG 'Skeleton Creek' is like nothing you've ever read before because it's a book and a m... PATRICK CARMAN There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there... IMRAN AMED If you have a flop movie, so what? And if you have a hit movie, it's 'so what,' too - it... EDDIE MURPHY It's nice to be in a creative world that's kind of isolated, but you can get led astray down... ANDREW DOST At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, ... JULIA ORMOND I just think Valentine's Day is a day to really appreciate the person you love, no matter who it... PRINCE ROYCE The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, beca... LARRY DAVID When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You k... NANCY REAGAN I've performed in China, France, New Delhi, and Indianapolis, and everybody just allows themselv... RICKY MARTIN You can go to Graff and buy a diamond that's flawless. You aren't going to be able to buy th... MARC JACOBS You can talk about what you see from the outside; it's hard to tell me who I am when you're ... RAY LEWIS I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it... SPIKE JONZE You have to take time and make time for each other. My current single 'Time Is Love' gives a... JOSH TURNER Zac Efron is my obsession, we're the same person. We're not actually here, it's like Jan... MEGAN FOX If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can infl... TIGER WOODS Speed Reader: Nothing more than… "Getting knowledge in a fast way". (Note: What's that?... DEYTH BANGER Sergio Leone's 'Once Upon a Time in America' is a brilliant movie. It's about four h... ERIK ESTRADA You're living your life the entire time in both worlds - it's not like they say, 'Action... LUCAS HEDGES There's a woman I see who's not my therapist, but she's like an old friend who's a t... LOUIS C. K. You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. I... EDDIE VEDDER I can't summarize my favorite movie, Jacques Tati's 'Play Time.' You just have to se... RICK PERLSTEIN Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's... BILL BLASS It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in ... QANDEEL BALOCH Making a movie is a network of decisions that keep multiplying as you go. You leave a trail of decis... SYDNEY POLLACK I don't consider roles like in 'Die Hard' what I do. This is like a hobby. It's fun.... BONNIE BEDELIA I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there... RACHEL KELLER In my career as a director, there's always been some point where you get halfway through it, or ... CLINT EASTWOOD What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel,... CAITLYN JENNER There's just something wonderful about getting a small group of people together in an isolated l... DREW GODDARD I don't care what anybody says: Nothing is better than a tomato you grow. There's something ... TOM VILSACK I really appreciate Frank Ocean's lyrical style, I appreciate the way that he can kind of draw y... ALICIA KEYS As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my... DYLAN MCDERMOTT I think it's an actor's responsibility to change every time. Not only for himself and the pe... JOHNNY DEPP I read the 'Twilight' books before the movie and the whole craze happened. And then I loved ... NINA DOBREV With music, there's a conversation happening. You're hearing what's going on right now, ... JIM DRAIN If you have to change the law to get more money, that's a tax increase, and Americans for Tax Re... GROVER NORQUIST I feel like if you flip through my Instagram, you'll kind of see the same angles and poses every... HAILEY BALDWIN I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like thi... PATRICK MARBER I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my... ELLEN DEGENERES Principle says it's not who put forth an idea. It's not the position of the person who put f... DAN WEBSTER I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in ... BRITTANY MURPHY In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the ... BILL BRYSON There's nothing definite yet. Of course, any time you have a book, there's going to be book ... SCOTTY MOORE It's not really about the competition. Your biggest challenge in a race is yourself. You're ... SUMMER SANDERS I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you ... HARI KONDABOLU I did 'Philadelphia' and 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape?' at the same time. It'... MARY STEENBURGEN You can tell young actors it's going to be very difficult, but there's no way you can unders... HOLLY HUNTER
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ROBERT KENNEDY The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever lan... ROBERT KENNEDY No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the ... ROBERT KENNEDY I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system ... ROBERT KENNEDY One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely bec... ROBERT KENNEDY Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. ROBERT HALF Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. ROBERT KENNEDY What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that th... ROBERT KENNEDY Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. ROBERT KENNEDY Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy. ROBERT KENNEDY When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest busi... ROBERT KENNEDY The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the worl... ROBERT KENNEDY Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good eno... ROBERT KENNEDY I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive... ROBERT KENNEDY In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth. ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. ... ROBERT KENNEDY If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. ROBERT KENNEDY I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. ROBERT KENNEDY Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced. ROBERT KENNEDY Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's... ROBERT KENNEDY Our generation was born during the turmoil following the First World War. That war marked the dividi... ROBERT KENNEDY Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of i... ROBERT KENNEDY If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of ... ROBERT KENNEDY Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community ge... ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our lear... ROBERT KENNEDY All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our t... ROBERT KENNEDY We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustrati... ROBERT KENNEDY One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time. ROBERT KENNEDY When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes... ROBERT KRAFT Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases. ROBERT KRAFT We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans. ROBERT MUGABE We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating. ROBERT MUGABE In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East ... ROBERT MUGABE