Derek Cianfrance Quotes

There's one rule that I have on my movies, which is that anything that you want to do, you can do. But! There's a flip side to that, which is that anything I want you to do, give it a try also.

Derek Cianfrance

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• Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Time
  • School
  • Science

• I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Long
  • Job
  • Help

• I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Legacy

• Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Disease
  • Sensitive

• I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Attention
  • Body
  • Count

• Going to the Super Bowl is not the reward. It's playing really well and winning.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Winning
  • Reward
  • Super Bowl

• I do watch a lot of YouTube.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Watch
  • Lot
  • YouTube

• Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • Library
  • Stand
  • Brick

• I'm not a Facebook girl. Even though there is a fake Facebook with my name, it's not me. I'm not on Twitter; it's not me.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Girl
  • Name
  • Fake

• The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Truth
  • Control
  • Government

• 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

• Running doesn't come easy to me, especially the first thirty or so minutes. My message is take it one step at a time.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Time
  • Running
  • Easy

• I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'Eddie!', and I'll try and give myself time by going into overdrive, 'Hey, hi! Nice to see you!' and start a whole conversation because I can't distinguish between who I know and who I don't.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Up
  • Time
  • Bad

• I've outlasted many marriages at Random House.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • House
  • Random
  • Many

• Victoria's Secret is like a big family.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Family
  • Like
  • Big

• I don't feel like I need to share my personal life, and I don't care if people think I'm gay or not. Assume whatever you want. You do it anyway.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Life
  • Care

• We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Opportunity
  • Equality
  • Ever

• The turtle trapped 'twixt plated decks Doth practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Sex
  • Clever

• The Union next to our liberties the most dear. May we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the rights of the States, and distributing equally the benefits and burdens of the Union.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • May
  • Remember

• Zoologists have reckoned there are up to at least 750 species of animal that have been observed exhibiting same-sex behaviour, or gender role transformation (which is very common in a wide range of fauna). There is only one species on earth, however, which has exhibited homophobia or transphobia. And that is the species homo sapiens sapiens. Us. So let's not allow the foolish, ignorant or bigoted ever to use words like "natural."

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Earth
  • Animal
  • Ignorant

• The office of the president is the most powerful in the world. It is also, at times, the most powerless.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • World
  • Powerful

• em

  

  Peter Medawar

• I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

  

  Plato
  • I Know
  • One Thing
  • Wisest Man

• There's one rule that I have on my movies, which is that anything that you want to do, you can do. But! There's a flip side to that, which is that anything I want you to do, give it a try also.

  

  Derek Cianfrance