Derek Cianfrance Quotes
I ask all my actors to do two things: I ask them to fail for me, and I ask them to surprise me.
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.
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Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with their hand and what was happening on the screen took some time to grasp. But with the iPad, the connection is obvious, even to toddlers.
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And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
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Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.
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I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on the shoulders of people you can watch grow and watch the way they treat others.
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You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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I do wear weaves and I do wear wigs.
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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
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Marriage equality - I think that it's a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let's end the drug wars. Let's balance the federal budget, and that means reforming the entitlements - Medicaid, Medicare.
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You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.
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We can best honor the memories of those who were killed on September 11 and those who have been killed fighting the war on terrorism, by dedicating ourselves to building a free and peaceful world safe from the threat of terrorism.
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There are 195 crime books published in Sweden every year. You could cut that to 100 and keep the good ones.
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We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.
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Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.
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Tahoe is a magical place full of positive energy, beautiful mountains, and lakes all around. It's home for me and feels so good to be there.
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It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.
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I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.
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I see myself following my dream to keep singing and acting.
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I ask all my actors to do two things: I ask them to fail for me, and I ask them to surprise me.
