Bill Paxton Quotes
When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.
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I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.
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The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.
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Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.
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If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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In the James Cameron blockbuster 'Avatar,' 3-D cinematography is the real star. The bugs and crawling creatures seem to slither into the theater seats. The floating mountains of the planet Pandora hover gloriously overhead. And the Na'Vi, Pandora's 10-foot-tall, blue-skinned natives, come convincingly to life.
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I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.
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Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
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I probably prefer comedy. Why? I'm not sure. I feel like the energy of a comedy is a better fit for me. I try to be a happy guy! It seems that most of my life has the energy more for a comedy than for drama. I'm grateful to do both, but I would have to lean towards the comedy side of acting.
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Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.
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Then you'd have found me pinned beneath a large metal pipe.
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I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.
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I will try and make peace between North and South Korea.
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What's important to me is people just being people.
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While one should never underestimate the ability of risk-besotted financiers to wreak havoc, the real threat to capitalism isn't unfettered financial cunning. It is, instead, the unwillingness of executives to confront the changing expectations of their stakeholders.
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I know I'm never going to probably see the Taj Mahal or, you know, climb Mt. Everest, but I can still maybe influence peoples' way of thinking by a story that I do, by something I learn about the world.
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To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.
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A magazine is not just one person. And a fashion shoot is the same!
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Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.
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North Korea is still my homeland, my country. I suffered on the outside because I was alien, without identity. I was nobody. I was in the worst situation, fighting for everything, to survive.
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I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.
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Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.
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When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.
