Derek Cianfrance Quotes
There's something so glorious in giving control to the world. I think that's what I'm trying to do in my films - control the world but also let it be chaotic, let there be life.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
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The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich tradition in the WNBA.
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There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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I hate competition.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski -
Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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I love trying new restaurants.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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If you're biking more and walking more, you're going to be happier and healthier. And you'll probably feel better if you take out less garbage, as most of us feel pretty crappy about that. But I don't think we can mistake those acts for doing what it takes to address a crisis at a global level.
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Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.
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Each story presents a mystery that has to be solved in the process of writing. When I'm at work on a story, I'm completely immersed in that world and in the lives of those characters; they're utterly real to me. Then, when I've completed the story, it all just falls away. The whole compulsion to understand is over.
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I think people should be authentic and who they are. If that calls people to same-sex attraction and same-sex marriage, then they should be true to who they are, and I think that the world could benefit by more love.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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When it comes to investing, you are your own worst enemy.
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I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober.
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There's something so glorious in giving control to the world. I think that's what I'm trying to do in my films - control the world but also let it be chaotic, let there be life.
