David Fincher Quotes
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
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I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
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If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it's not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
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When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.
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I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
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I fed my ego, but not my soul.
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There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.
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Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
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I refuse to dress 'hot' for Halloween, 'cause I always have to have makeup and hair and look cute for my job. So on Halloween, I either go gory or weird or funny.
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Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.
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I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.
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A lot of people give actors credit when they gain weight for a role in a drama when they win an Oscar, but when you’re doing a sitcom, people don’t give you a lot of credit, because you’ve got to keep your weight on for five or six years if it’s successful.
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I always like to say just think you were a doctor with only one patient. You might understand how that person gets sick, how they get better, but you understand nothing about the progression of disease or how humans in general get ill. Now take an Earth scientist: you only have one planet to study.
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Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.
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I learn the most from making my own mistakes.
