Doug Liman Quotes
I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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I believe it's easier to be an actor. Somehow, interviewing seems to be intrusive on people's lives.
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
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I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week.
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I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.
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Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can't stop until it's done.
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Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing nothing. I prefer the zen of paying attention, such as the meditation of yoga flow, or walking meditations. I also consider singing, surfing and gardening to very meditative.
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Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common.
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
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We had about 60 regions in Greece and now there are only 13. It'd be like cutting down 50 states to 13 and making it more efficient.
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I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.
