David Lowery Quotes
I think, with 'St. Nick,' when you're working with a smaller budget, you have fewer risks involved. You're able to take chances with style and content.
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The world is too violent right now.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public interest.
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When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can we have an impact?' That's a different style of investing than a passive investor in the stock market. To me, that's how you're taking the risk out of it. You know what your capability is and how you can enhance value.
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Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands. The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a 'khali' is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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Very obsessed fans do ask actors to attend their weddings.
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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers.
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It's a tough town, it's a loving town, it's a supportive town, and that's why so many great news people, journalists have come through Chicago or are from Chicago.
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You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.
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I have never worn dresses by grands couturiers.
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The whole point of all of this - why we are here, why the world is here, and why we have the political system and leaders that we do - is to achieve change. This is the purpose of life.
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My father used to say, 'Well, Ann, maybe the best thing you'll ever do, you haven't even thought of yet.'
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When I was in middle school, I liked to make cartoons.
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The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.
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After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
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I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.
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I think, with 'St. Nick,' when you're working with a smaller budget, you have fewer risks involved. You're able to take chances with style and content.
