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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I come from Venezuela, from the independent film arena, and you work with one camera.
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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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Many priests say that retirement is more identified with freedom from meetings, budgets, personnel conflicts, and "dealing with the Chancery." Even as I struggled not to take that last point too personally, I was reminded that I have heard the same sentiment from many of my bishop friends as well!
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Roosevelt gazed around the library. A glint in his spectacles betrayed displeasure. Loeb came up inquiringly, and there was a whispered conversation in which the words newspapermen and sufficient room were audible. Hurrying outside, Loeb returned with two dozen delighted scribes. They proceeded to report the subsequent ceremony with a wealth of detail unmatched in the history of presidential inaugurations.
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I'm a studio rat. I like going in there as producer.
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.
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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.
