Neill Blomkamp Quotes
If you don't have something that glues the audience to the screen, you're in trouble.
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Working with special needs children is hard.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
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I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
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I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.
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I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.
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The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.
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Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.
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The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.
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I think gymnastics was associated with the 10. I thought that belonged to the sport, and somehow we gave it way.
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Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.
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By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.
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We have to keep the momentum going in the economy. And we have to make sure that we give small businesses as much cash and liquidity as possible so they have the confidence to hire that next worker.
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I go for drives in the Flint Hills, which is the setting for 'The Virgin of Small Plains'.
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I read a lot of scripts, and there's a lot of good writing and a lot of OK writing and a lot of crappy writing. And even with the really good writing, it doesn't necessarily speak to me.
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In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.
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I'd seen another shade of him, and if it had been light where we were now, he'd have seen the same of me. So I was grateful, as I had been so often in my life, for the dark.
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I kind of like to write fast. It keeps the pacing up. And it keeps me off the streets.
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There's no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that's really great.
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I remember telling my second-graders the basic 'Metamorphosis' story, saying, like, 'What about - what if a guy woke up one morning and he was a bug? Wouldn't that be weird?' And they loved that. And I think that was the trigger that made me think, like, 'Oh man, here's my audience. They're just a lot shorter than I ever thought they might be.'
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If you don't have something that glues the audience to the screen, you're in trouble.
