Doug Liman Quotes

I'm very interested in politics, and I feel TV is a more political medium than film.

Doug Liman

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• When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Money
  • Day
  • Start

• I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.

  

  Irving Layton
  • Genius
  • Poems
  • Shakespeare

• I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • You
  • Friend
  • Said

• I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Me
  • City
  • Write

• Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Today
  • Europe
  • Closer

• You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Money
  • Lose

• I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them, anyway!

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Ethics

• The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Night

• If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Real
  • Want

• I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.

  

  Yoon Ahn
  • Pretty
  • Simple
  • Nothing

• A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Bad
  • Day
  • Hair

• I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Best

• All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Long
  • Words
  • Beginning

• I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Up
  • School
  • Remember

• Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Ugly
  • Machine

• Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Like
  • Chocolate
  • Candy

• No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Done
  • Fun
  • You

• There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.

  

  Sam Richards
  • United States
  • Odd
  • United

• Mitt Romney is a businessman, a turnaround artist, a CEO. That is who he is. The former governor has experience in the public and private sector.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Experience

• As leader of the Fine Gael Party, I will also use our position in the European People's Party to clearly state our views with our European political partners.

  

  Enda Kenny
  • People
  • Political
  • Party

• Dubai is a vibrant city: Big cars, big buildings... it reminds me of my home town, Hong Kong. People are always on the move here, and there's a lot going on. There are some wonderful architecture and some not-so-wonderful.

  

  John Rocha
  • People
  • Home
  • City

• There are stories I'd like to tell, I'd like to see, and they're not getting made. These stories are beyond the experience of the people in power. They don't understand it, so they're frightened of it.

  

  Randa Haines
  • People
  • Experience
  • Power

• Trans folk, especially of color, should not be obligated to help cis folk play catch-up on our experiences. The effort can detract from our work to protect and liberate ourselves.

  

  Janet Mock
  • Up
  • Work
  • Help

• I'm very interested in politics, and I feel TV is a more political medium than film.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Political