Doug Liman Quotes
I don't really analyze my process. I do know that if it's not right, I won't move on. I'm tenacious to a fault about that.
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I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.
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A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.
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I try cars; I try them all. Cars need to be sexy, because we're not talking about biscuits here.
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The Indonesian nationalists, mainly Javanese, who threw the Dutch out - in 1949, after a four-year struggle - were keen to preserve their inheritance and emulated the coercion, deceit, and bribery of the colonial rulers.
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Sometimes you do get caught up in the midst of becoming... a product, a brand, and not having a say in any of that.
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The U.N. is much more than the case of Iraq.
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But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.
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All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.
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There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.
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Tanpinar presciently feared that to embrace the western conception of progress was to be mentally enslaved by a whole new epistemology, one that compartmentalised knowledge and concealed an instrumental view of human beings as no more than things to be manipulated.
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When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.
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Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.
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I love road trips. If you haven't been on one in a while, it's time to put a trip on your calendar. Driving can help clear the cobwebs of your mind, and you can learn a lot about your fellow Americans while you're at it.
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British passion for Chinese tea was unstoppable, but the Chinese had no desire for our offerings, however much we tried to sell them woolen clothes or cutlery.
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The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.
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Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and hungry.
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Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it.
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I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure.
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The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.
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....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.
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Religious phenomena are naturally arranged in two fundamental categories: beliefs and rites. The first are states of opinion, and consist in representations; the second are determined modes of action.
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I don't really analyze my process. I do know that if it's not right, I won't move on. I'm tenacious to a fault about that.
