Darren Aronofsky Quotes
I was 12 or 13 years old. So I started to write poetry and fiction, even though I was really into biology because my dad was a science teacher. I kept writing all those years.
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Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion is about to kick in.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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New York City is my favorite city in the world.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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The 100m is never stressful.
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If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.
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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.
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I wasn't a bad kid. My dad left when I was young, so I didn't have much discipline, not that I'm making excuses. I was always out and about and had a good time as a kid, so I've done alright.
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To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.
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I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to.
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I was 12 or 13 years old. So I started to write poetry and fiction, even though I was really into biology because my dad was a science teacher. I kept writing all those years.
