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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What I kind of want to spread as my message to all kinds of youth that I get to reach out to is, you can do cool stuff; you've just got to put in time and be dedicated.
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'Hedwig' is unabashedly analog.
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As a kid growing up, I wanted the Allen Iverson shoes that came out, the Questions. My dad got them for me, so I was excited about that.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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I always loved family holidays, and I had this vision and dream as a little girl of having a big family of my own.
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If you don't have something that glues the audience to the screen, you're in trouble.