Kathryn Bigelow Quotes

When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism.

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• I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.

  

  Ed Helms
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• When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
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• I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.

  

  Cara Buono
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• I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.

  

  Dan Scanlon
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• The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.

  

  Dan Jenkins
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• I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.

  

  Karen Black
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• Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
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• Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.

  

  Cara Delevingne
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• 'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.

  

  Rachael Taylor
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• I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by the U.S. It was sort of a call to action.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
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• When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.

  

  Ted Danson
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• Love can never make you weak, and love is not restricted to opposite sex. I love my parents, I love my animals, and I love my profession.

  

  Randeep Hooda
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• I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

  

  Van Morrison
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• Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
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• The density of space junk peaks around 620 miles up, in the middle of so-called low-Earth orbit. That's bad, because many weather, scientific, and reconnaissance satellites circle in various low-Earth orbits.

  

  Sam Kean
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• Does anyone actually think I'm going to call Tiger Woods and tell him what to do with his swing one day, and he's going to go out and do it, simple as that? It doesn't work like that.

  

  Hank Haney
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• Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy-of wisdom you can acquire and make your own.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
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• We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.

  

  Donna Shalala
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• Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

  

  Harry S Truman
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• But to fly is just like swimming. You do not forget easily. I have been on the ground for more than ten years. If I close my eyes, however, I can again feel the stick in my right hand, the throttle in my left, the rudder bar beneath my feet. I can sense the freedom and the cleanliness and all the things which a pilot knows.

  

  Saburo Sakai
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• Anything that doesn't bore me I think is doable because it's keeping me awake.

  

  Paul Schrader
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• When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism.

  

  Kathryn Bigelow
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