Kathryn Bigelow Quotes
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I'm tired of the speculation about my personal life.
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I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.
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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
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I love to drive. My present to myself from 'The Tudors' was a red Mazda MX5 hard-top convertible. I loved that car, and also what she represented - my first success.
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Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
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I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.
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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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I would not waste time, as Senator Gillibrand does, on things such as dictating a national minimum driving age and sponsoring a 'National Day of Play.' I'd help New Yorkers understand that we get less in value from Washington than what we send there in taxes.
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Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.
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Taiwan has been so well developed economically. But we are underdeveloped culturally.
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So no, I don't think we've lost our edge at all.
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I've punched a fan in the face because he was obnoxious. I've also pinched a child and made him cry, but I was 10 then!
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I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York Review of Books,' and I was never part of the Stravinsky 'inner circle.'
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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.
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Now don't stir. I'll be back in five minutes. And don't fall into any temptations while I am away.
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In the mornings, I try to spend anywhere from 15 to 60 minutes with my son. Failing that, I try for 30 to 60 minutes together at the end of the day. I try to make that work, but if I can't, I just move on. You can't beat yourself up about it.
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After serving as a U.S. Navy SEAL, I started a business. In four years, it failed incredibly, but I learned a lot about business, raising equity, and choosing partners.
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As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
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Strong growth means increased use of energy at a pace that can strain the capacity to supply what is needed at a reasonable price.
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I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.
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I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell.
