Derek Cianfrance Quotes
I think book adaptations, the best one to me is like 'Brokeback Mountain.' Which is a short story, 21 pages, that expands so beautifully into a movie.
 
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	I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.   
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	Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.   
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	When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!   
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	The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.   
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	Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.   
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	Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.   
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	My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!   
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	Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!   
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	Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.   
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	I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.   
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	Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.   
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	I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.   
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	Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.   
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	I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.   
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	Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.   
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	I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.   
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	She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.   
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	Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.   
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	'Maze Runner' is about a group of teens that live inside this giant maze. And outside the maze are these creatures that come out at night. The centerpiece of the maze where we stay is called the Glades, and we call ourselves the Gladers.   
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	I've never found NBA owners to be deferential. I never considered them to be reliant. All that I do is knock myself out to represent their interests the best way I can and sometimes tell them, as part of my job, what they don't like to hear.   
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	I saw women that were repressed. When they're in classes with young men, they shut up all the time. They're laughed at if they have unusual ideas. They have to be sexy; then, they can't really think.   
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	If I can pay the bills, I'm happy.   
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	I think book adaptations, the best one to me is like 'Brokeback Mountain.' Which is a short story, 21 pages, that expands so beautifully into a movie.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					