Derek Cianfrance Quotes
Lars Ulrich, he was my hero growing up. I wanted to be like him. I played the drums.
Quotes to Explore
-
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
-
North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
-
A new untruth is better than an old truth.
-
I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
-
If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
-
The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
-
About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
-
No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
-
In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
-
I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
-
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
-
We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
-
Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.
-
There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
-
When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
-
I'm definitely a hair down girl. I'm a fan of the natural, earthy look.
-
Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
-
From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.
-
Too many of my Senate colleagues overdid it. They stayed on too long - napping through committee hearings when they should have packed up and gone home.
-
As a kid, I loved leading 'dance camp' in my garage for the neighborhood kids. I would choreograph really intricate routines for us to perform. It was so much fun!
-
I've chosen jobs that were sexy because I wanted to do them.
-
Innocence is a pretty dangerous thing, you know. Revisit Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' or, for that matter, Greene's 'The Quiet American' to find out how destructive it can be.
-
Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated.
-
Lars Ulrich, he was my hero growing up. I wanted to be like him. I played the drums.
