David Lowery Quotes
The films I love are very precise, and every shot means something; every shot should convey something new.
Quotes to Explore
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Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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Asking what I'd do without Loopt is almost like asking what I would do if I didn't have a smartphone because the feature set has become the norm for me.
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You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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I am one of the most successful economists, according to what markets tell us, though most of my professional colleagues, who are much keener to accept market outcomes than I am, would dismiss me as a crank or - the worst of all abuses among economists - a 'sociologist.'
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
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The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.
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The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
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In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.
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Getting to have a higher purpose other than just being successful is very necessary for me.
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As we got older, we grew comfortable in roles that met our parents' expectations. Nora was the smart one. Delia, the comedian. I was the pretty, obedient one. And Amy was the adventurous mischief-maker.
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
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I have to watch the news or my day is not complete.
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If we are going to compete in this world we're in today, there is no possible way we can do it with lowering expectations and dumbing down everything. Children are going to suffer, and families' hearts are going to be broken that their kids won't be able to get a job in the 21st Century.
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From the day he first walked through the door of the Oval Office, President Obama's top priority has been growing our economy, creating good jobs, and rebuilding middle class security.
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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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Ultimately journalism has changed... partisanship is very much a part of journalism now.
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It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.
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The films I love are very precise, and every shot means something; every shot should convey something new.
