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 am in a traditional financial services business - but we at Fidelity can see that the evolution of technology is setting our industry up for disruption. What if this technology could do for the transfer of value what the Internet did for the transfer of information?
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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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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That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.
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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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To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.
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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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I don't get what my signature is supposed to mean if we haven't had some kind of exchange.
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It was actually nice to get a fresh, clean slate when I came to America.
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Jack, stop telling people you're Ozzy Osbourne's son to get into places, you're a fucking loser!
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As a kid, you run around the house pretending to be a superhero, and now to be doing it as a job, I feel very lucky.
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It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter of course, too natural to mention.
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When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.
