Danielle Harris Quotes
I chose to stylize 'Among Friends' and add a dark comedic element because I didn't want to get pigeonholed as a genre director. I have a pretty dark sense of humor and knew that in order to get distribution, I had to do something in the genre for my first time out.
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Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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I take nothing away from my existence in the 'hood, because it sharpened my instincts. We had a different way of living that developed our survival instincts, and I use those to this day when I make films. You can't buy that.
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A well begun is half ended.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
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I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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A beaver does not, as legend would have it, know which direction the tree will fall when he cuts it, but counts on alacrity to make up for lack of engineering expertise.
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My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.
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If you have to forecast, forecast often.
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Life's picking up speed.
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Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.
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I chose to stylize 'Among Friends' and add a dark comedic element because I didn't want to get pigeonholed as a genre director. I have a pretty dark sense of humor and knew that in order to get distribution, I had to do something in the genre for my first time out.
