Kathryn Bigelow Quotes
It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't.
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Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
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Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't take them all the time.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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I do two cups of coffee with a little bit of raw sugar and soy creamer, and then I do a bowl of plain oatmeal with walnuts and blueberries. Now, if I could do what I really wanted to do with my life, every morning I would have a salami-and-cheese omelet with hash browns and a buttermilk biscuit - and pancakes. But my heart would explode.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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If you're into a leather-jacketed crime fighter and his artificially intelligent robotic supercar, tune into 'The Good Wife.' If, on the other hand, you prefer the misadventures of a freelance itinerant trucker and his simian sidekick, check out 'The Walking Dead.' Or DVR them both and go talk to your family.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort.
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I'm a dork!
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...an incorrect theory, even if it cannot be inhibited by any contradiction that would refute it, is none the less incorrect, just as a criminal policy is none the less criminal even if it cannot be inhibited by any court that would curb it.
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Speaking as the child of divorce, I have to say that one of the most disconcerting findings in 'The Longevity Project' focused on divorce: On average, grown children of divorced parents died almost five years earlier than children from intact families.
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Some actors start with the right shoes. I start with the right hats.
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It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't.
