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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When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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One of the big concerns I have is that most of the HR departments in a lot of companies are hiring away from creativity and they don't know it. For instance, they are requiring everybody to have a college degree. The most creative people I know couldn't deal with college.
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If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
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I learn the most from making my own mistakes.
