Derek Cianfrance Quotes
I never learned to be a writer. I never took screenwriting courses. I never read anyone's scripts. As a writer, my only guiding principle has been to write about things that scare me, write about things that make me feel vulnerable, write about things that will expose my deepest fears, so that's how I write.
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.
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Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
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I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.
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For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.
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Jews have always thought that having someone elevated with his head above the grass was not good for the Jews. I never felt that way. I believe that you have to stand up.
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I was on morning TV for 10 years in Chicago.
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Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
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You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.
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The disappearance of Israel as a Zionist project, through war, cultural exhaustion or demographic momentum, is... plausible... Many Israelis see the demise of the country as not just possible, but probable.
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Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.
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Look at the newborn baby. It struggles to breathe after living in the womb. And yet, growth comes as a result of struggle. Even when we talk about jihad. We need to attach consciousness to struggle. This struggle has to be both individual and collective.
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I try personally not to be nostalgic.
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Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.
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Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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She found more gratification in teaching one willing student than a dozen resentful ones.
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I'm never anywhere for more than three weeks.
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Be yourself. And if you're not accepted by your family, there will be people who will accept you.
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I've written tons of scripts, and when I wrote 'The New Girl in Town,' I read it to my parents, and they suggested I make a movie out of it. I got a few friends together, and I shot the movie in one weekend, and then my mom and I edited it.
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I think people that have fear that, 'Oh if I have a kid I won't be able to do this and I won't be able to do that.' It's kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better.
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I never learned to be a writer. I never took screenwriting courses. I never read anyone's scripts. As a writer, my only guiding principle has been to write about things that scare me, write about things that make me feel vulnerable, write about things that will expose my deepest fears, so that's how I write.
