Kenneth Lonergan Quotes

There are so many details in a movie that it's amazing how much work you'll do to change what adds up to not that much material.

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• I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted.

  

  Walter Kirn
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• It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.

  

  Patrick Macnee
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• I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

  

  Candace Kita
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• What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?

  

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• Sony is the coolest studio. They are really amazing. I think part of it comes from they're not an American corporation. They don't work by quite the same rules. And their studio heads have a lot of autonomy.

  

  Adam McKay
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• I went 59.9 sec. when I was 18 and thought, 'Hmm, that was fast - let's see how much faster we can go and what the rest of the world can do to keep up.'

  

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• The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.

  

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• I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I'll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.

  

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• I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.

  

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• Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.

  

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• I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

  

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• I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.

  

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• I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.

  

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• Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

  

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• I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.

  

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• My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.

  

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• I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.

  

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• I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.

  

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• I don't want to paint myself as some villain - I was never a bad guy doing horrible things, but I got too caught up in wanting a very specific thing to happen to the band. Ultimately, I had to find the ability in myself to get over that and stop being so stringent and learn to laugh a little bit more.

  

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• God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.

  

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• When we started with 'Big Brother' and created the reality genre, no one could ever foresee that there was so much space in the genre that it could deliver so many formats. There will be periods where there is not enough new stuff to keep the genre alive. But it will never die.

  

  John de Mol, Jr.
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• Nothing is a calling card. Everything is what you do. If you do it in order to get somewhere else, you're not actually doing it. If you're thinking, 'What is the weird thing I want to make with my friends?' money and other things will come later.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
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• To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.

  

  Indira Gandhi
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• There are so many details in a movie that it's amazing how much work you'll do to change what adds up to not that much material.

  

  Kenneth Lonergan
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