Cameron Crowe Quotes
It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.
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'Dhruva' is not a first person narrative of Siddharth Abhimanyu.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
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Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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I was a tomboy.
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I never thought I'd be an actor.
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My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
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The demand that school finances be transferred away from local school districts to the state and/or federal government has been a long-time favorite of the educationist lobbies.
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I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
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Mama gives you money for Sunday school, you trade yours for candy after church is through.
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Celebrities do look different in real life from our images of them - there is a big gap. And that is what my work is about: the gap between the image and the celebrity themselves.
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I've made a couple of comments about fame, and my kids are going to be put in - in, you know, working at Taco Bell when they're 16 so they know what a real job is like, and - and know what it's like to - to really earn money.
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It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.
