Derek Cianfrance Quotes

When I was a kid, I had two nightmares: one was nuclear war, and the other was that my parents would get a divorce; and when I was twenty, they split up, and I just felt like I needed to confront all those things that scared me as a kid - entering young adulthood and trying to have relationships.

Derek Cianfrance

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• The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Mind
  • Compassion
  • Results

• About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Water
  • Start
  • Drink

• Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Peaceful
  • Bullets
  • Ballots

• The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Time
  • School
  • Study

• I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Heart
  • Guy
  • Nice

• There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Times
  • Those
  • Penalty

• I never thought of a career of as a model, and it was a total surprise for me when I won the contest and became Miss Chelyabinsk. Then I started modelling in Paris.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Career
  • Thought
  • Model

• Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Like
  • Born
  • Almost

• I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Nothing
  • Without
  • My Own

• One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Ideas
  • Army
  • Brainy

• There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

  

  E. B. White
  • Always
  • Complicated
  • Limit

• I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Knowledge
  • City
  • Myself

• I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys, because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Pretty
  • Thought
  • Better

• I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Movie
  • Like
  • Brain

• But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Sex
  • Difference

• The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Love
  • Space
  • Ability

• I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Live
  • True
  • Win

• All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Wind
  • Hollywood
  • Disaster

• My dream job would be a lawyer. I can talk my way out of anything, and I love cross-examining people. I think I'd be a really good lawyer.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Work
  • God

• It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was always moving. I had to meet new people all the time. And they'd laugh.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• For the anti-anti-Trump pundit, whatever the allegation against Mr. Trump, whatever his blunders or foibles, the other side is always worse.

  

  Charlie Sykes
  • Trump

• When I was a kid, I had two nightmares: one was nuclear war, and the other was that my parents would get a divorce; and when I was twenty, they split up, and I just felt like I needed to confront all those things that scared me as a kid - entering young adulthood and trying to have relationships.

  

  Derek Cianfrance
  • Up
  • Trying
  • War