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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There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.
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Out-marriage is an issue religious groups have been wrestling with for some time. Of course men and women fall in love. Of course it's not always convenient to their respective cultural and spiritual norms.
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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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I would never sign up to film my personal life.
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It is certainly curious that among all the millions of books that have been written on every conceivable subject, so few writers have really tried to describe the tissue of their thoughts and the actual taste of consciousness. And yet this is, after all, our most immediate and direct experience, the only experience of whose reality we are absolutely certain.
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Everywhere I go, somebody is staring at me. I don't know if people are staring because they recognize me or because they think I'm a weirdo.
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As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.
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I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.
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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.
