Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!
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It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.
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It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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It's super dope when you connect with something personally.
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My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
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My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.
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I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.
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I'll admit, sometimes I've paid the bills with acting. You know the phrase, 'It's one for the money, two for the showreel.' I don't want that as a director. I don't want to compromise myself. There's a big old wide world out there. I want to explore it.
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Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
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If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
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There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.
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Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
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The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn't take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it's really fun. It kind of wows people. It's like they're watching magic happen right before their eyes.
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In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.
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Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.
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The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.
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There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains.
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My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!
