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.Derek Cianfrance
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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.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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.
Maggie Stiefvater -
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.
Hanna Rosin -
And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
Karlheinz Stockhausen -
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.
Jack Gleeson -
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.
Gail Porter
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
A. J. Jacobs -
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.
Vince McMahon -
You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
Fernando Flores -
I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
Ed Bradley -
I do wear weaves and I do wear wigs.
Tamar Braxton -
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Samuel Johnson
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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.
Gary Johnson -
You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.
Ioan Gruffudd -
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.
Jack Reed -
There are 195 crime books published in Sweden every year. You could cut that to 100 and keep the good ones.
Hakan Nesser -
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.
J. Irwin Miller -
Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.
Magic Johnson
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My ancestors are Rajputs from Jaipur, a lineage of the royal family.
Kangana Ranaut -
I don't really think about being pigeonholed so much.
Phyllis Smith -
I love watching Anthony Kim play, but I'm not a fan of the way he grips down a good two inches on his full-swing shots. Choking down lightens the club's swing weight and effectively makes the shaft stiffer. It also makes it difficult to hit the ball high enough for all situations.
Lee Trevino -
From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.
Jon Meacham -
The reality is that we’re in very politicized times. The complete antithesis of Obama is Trump. We are in very polarized times. People are taking a very strong view after a period of time, I think, where people fell asleep on politics to a certain extent.
Amma Asante -
I ask all my actors to do two things: I ask them to fail for me, and I ask them to surprise me.
Derek Cianfrance