Neill Blomkamp Quotes
I actually think Johannesburg represents the future. My version of what I think the world is going to become looks like Johannesburg.
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.
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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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I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
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If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
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I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
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It was cool to meet Cris Carter. That dude has some of the best hands to have played the game.
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Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.
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We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond.
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'To stamp becoming with the character of being-that is the supreme will to power.' (WM 617) This suggests that becoming only is if it is grounded in being as being: 'That everything recurs is the closest approximation of a world of becoming to one of being.'
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This world was created from God's fear of solitude. In other words, us, the creatures, have no other meaning but to distract the Creator. Poor clowns of the absolute, we forget that we live dramas for the boredom of a spectator, whose claps have never reached the ears of a mortal.
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I might be trying to change the world, but I also better be funny while I'm doing it. I've never lost sight of that.
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I actually think Johannesburg represents the future. My version of what I think the world is going to become looks like Johannesburg.
