Darren Aronofsky Quotes
I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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When you look at the roles I've done and the roles coming up, they're all strong. I guess I'm more drawn to that than that kind of submissive role females can be categorised as.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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First and foremost, I feel very lucky to have the family I have, so I would like my family to stay happy and healthy.
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Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.
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I love the theatre. It's a perfect life for an actor: you can do a couple of movies and then go and do a play, and then go back and do another movie. It's a nice way to live your life.
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The pursuit of curiosity about the basic facts of nature has proven, with few exceptions throughout the history of medical science, to be the route by which the successful drugs and devices of modern medicine were discovered.
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I think it's important to show people, especially young people, that it's okay to have a personality. And that they can express themselves however they like.
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It scared me to death to think about improv, but I got hired for a year at Second City in Chicago, which made me nervous, but I found I could improvise. Then I was in a group called the Ace Trucking Company, which we'd do, like, a half hour set of material, then open up for improvisation.
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.
