Kathryn Bigelow Quotes
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.
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It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
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I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.
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I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.
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Brain science will be the most popular science of the early twenty-first century.
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When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they held. With a real historical figure you have to be fair, and this is not an obligation you have in dealing with your own creations, so it is quite different.
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With a 3D printer, you could build your own car, one part at a time. When you were finished, you'd have an automobile that is extremely lightweight because it is made of plastic, which is good because you'd need to carry it because it is made of plastic.
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I'm not sure what a conservative is. I don't know whether a conservative is a guy that goes to bed too early or maybe doesn't sleep long enough or just what the hell he might be. I don't know. Maybe he's a guy that - you know, he just wants to be real quiet.
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Don't just plan to write - write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.
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You can fake a lot in a startup these days, what with Amazon Web Services and all sorts of off-the-shelf back-end components that let any even minimally competent duffer set up a Web app that does something. Intelligent planning for growth is rare among early startups, but it's the name of the game at a large, rapidly scaling tech company.
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The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process.
