Chris Meledandri Quotes
We start with strong characters and build the movie from there. That not to say we don't struggle with story - that's the most challenging part.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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In a democracy, power is not permanent.
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I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.
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The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
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I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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I'm definitely inspired by old hip-hop.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.
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We know the fans love us to death, and the people that hear out music love our music.
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I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
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As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
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An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.
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Obviously, I've been on sets before but nothing as big as 'Twilight.' You forget sometimes that you're on set of one of the biggest movies ever- so when you just sit back and think about it its just so incredible. It's such a great learning experience.
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Sure, Kill Bill's a violent movie. But it's a Tarantino movie. You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down.
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Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.
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We start with strong characters and build the movie from there. That not to say we don't struggle with story - that's the most challenging part.
