Derek Cianfrance Quotes
In terms of Ray Liotta, when I was a teenager growing up in Colorado, I didn't have pictures of girls on my wall. I had pictures of Ray Liotta on my wall. Along with Mike Patton, he was one of my heroes.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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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.
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Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.
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I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.
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I want to be known as A.J. Styles, the WWE Superstar that he is, and have amazing matches, make memories - I think that's the goal.
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We should all love animals.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.
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My album is very uplifting and positive and fun. That was my mission - to get people up on their feet and escape the seriousness of life.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.
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Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.
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True friends stab you in the front.
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The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that case there must be something vital to rebel against and if the elderly stiffly refuse to put up a vigorous front of their own, it leaves the entire situation in a mist.
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I just don't stop working.
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We all say things that we later regret.
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Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.
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In terms of Ray Liotta, when I was a teenager growing up in Colorado, I didn't have pictures of girls on my wall. I had pictures of Ray Liotta on my wall. Along with Mike Patton, he was one of my heroes.
