Derek Cianfrance Quotes

I was an audience member before I'm a filmmaker. All I've tried to do as a filmmaker was to make movies I want to see.

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• We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Night
  • Practice
  • Starts

• I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Future
  • You
  • Know

• I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Two
  • Jazz
  • Bass

• I think pride is more important sometimes than making money.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Important
  • Money
  • Pride

• We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Need
  • Musicians

• As mainstream religious leaders of different faiths get together, it strengthens the voice of moderation.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Different
  • Together
  • Religious

• I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Me
  • Drinking
  • Stopped

• I know nothing about technology.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Know
  • Technology
  • Nothing

• We've been brought up to pick one thing in life and become really good at just that. But that's never what I wanted to be. I was always interested in many things at the same time, and I wanted to try all of them at the same time, too.

  

  Lakshmi Pratury
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Loneliness
  • Burden
  • Bear

• I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Wife
  • Road
  • Stupid

• I was in Congress for six months, and they put me on blood pressure medication. I flew helicopters in combat and I was fine, and I survived 13 months in recovery in the hospital... I got to Congress, and six months later I'm on blood pressure medication. Fourteen months later, they doubled the dosage!

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Me
  • Blood
  • Pressure

• I've the highest respect and regards for Shankar sir. He has taken Tamil cinema to a new level. I would have loved to work with him, but there are some date hassles.

  

  Vijay
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Taken

• People think I must have been turning cartwheels on the night I sealed the movie deal - which was only two days after sealing the book deal - but I was really quite terrified.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • People
  • Book
  • Movie

• The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Funny
  • Know
  • Best

• It's not every day people fly you to New York for auditions.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • People
  • Day
  • Fly

• I try to cook dinner, but it's difficult when I'm working.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Difficult
  • Try
  • Dinner

• I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Know
  • Person

• I moved from New Zealand to Melbourne when I was 17. I'd planned to go to university to study French, but I was offered a contract to write and record an album that was too good to pass up. Looking back now I think that was pretty young but, at the time, I was ready to have an adventure.

  

  Kimbra Lee Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Fashion tells about who you are from external point of view.

  

  Suga BTS
  • Fashion
  • Point Of View

• I think we all have a kind of dark side, and that's what keeps life - and characters - interesting. That's one of the things that I'm drawn to write about again and again, the secrets we keep and how they shape us.

  

  Jennifer McMahon
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Dark

• My job is to keep my eye on the ball and to stay focused on what can we get done every single day to advance the vision and values that brought me here.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Done
  • Job
  • Single

• "Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.

  

  Barry Malzberg
  • Universe
  • Understanding
  • motivation

• I was an audience member before I'm a filmmaker. All I've tried to do as a filmmaker was to make movies I want to see.

  

  Derek Cianfrance