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.
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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.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
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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.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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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.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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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.
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
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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.
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I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.
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You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.
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Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
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The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.
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My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of the minister and sometimes maybe that much. The neighbors all called him - a gentleman.
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We don't want to think about money in an ideal life; in a well-lived life, money wouldn't be one of our primary concerns, and we prefer to adopt the ostrich position.
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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.
