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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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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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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The terrorist seeks to smash the most fundamental liberty of all: the right to lead our everyday lives on the basic assumption of safety.
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The use of large-scale military force in volatile regions of underdeveloped countries is difficult to do right, has major unintended consequences and rarely turns out to be quick, effective, controlled and short lived.
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We're all just trying to do the best we can with what we know!
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We don't always know exactly what we're doing as parents. Children don't come with instruction manuals, as the saying goes. So it's important to me that I always question the choices I'm making as a father, to really stay alert and open to the balance between being too hard or too soft.
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I'm trying to stay normal, that's all. But it's hard.
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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.
