Derek Cianfrance Quotes
I think people need fantasy, but I think they also need to know that they're not being lied to. I think sometimes the fantasy can betray people and become more difficult for people's lives than just truth. I can't stand delusion. Delusion makes me sick.
Quotes to Explore
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Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down or easy to swallow are uninteresting... It's good when people have such a polarizing response.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.
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Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.
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When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
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One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
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I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.
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When I'm in the U.K. – and I'm here more than people would think – I tend to keep a very low profile.
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It's surreal to think that I own this beautiful island. It doesn't feel like anyone can own Lanai. What it feels like to me is this really cool 21st-century engineering project, where I get to work with the people of Lanai to create a prosperous and sustainable Eden in the Pacific.
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The Founding Fathers of our nation believed in the people. They created a new nation based on the radical notion that the people could be free and trusted - that the nation would be great if you trusted the people to be good.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.
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I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
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Marriage is socialism among two people.
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Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive.
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The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.
Chad Hurley -
The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow.
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I think we have a tendency in America to keep dividing ourselves, separating ourselves from each other.
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I think people need fantasy, but I think they also need to know that they're not being lied to. I think sometimes the fantasy can betray people and become more difficult for people's lives than just truth. I can't stand delusion. Delusion makes me sick.
