Doug Liman Quotes

My characters in my movies are all flawed. You'll probably never see Tom Hanks in a Doug Liman film. He plays, you know, very earnest and unflawed.

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• I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Fighting

• I don't write about Google except to insult the company.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Company
  • Google
  • Insult

• I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • World
  • Music
  • Long

• The U.S. should support the Nigerian government to stay in Sierra Leone under the ECOMOG umbrella. The U.S. should also support other countries, including Ghana, in ECOMOG until stability is established.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Support
  • Government

• I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind.

  

  Zach Braff
  • You
  • Rest
  • Leaving

• Have common sense and stick to the point.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Sense
  • Common
  • Common Sense

• Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • Success
  • Desire

• When I was 4 years old, I woke up in the middle of the night and told my parents there was a witch crying outside in the boxwood bushes. I didn't know who she was or why she was crying, but I was terribly upset.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Up
  • Why
  • She

• I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Future
  • Like
  • Wonder

• There’s nothing like deduction. We’ve determined everything about our problem but the solution.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Nature

• Why be afraid to make an honest mistake?

  

  Demi Lovato
  • Why
  • Mistake

• We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Death
  • Stop
  • Space

• You are intellect, I am life!

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Life

• That of beaver skins, of beaver wool, and of gum Senega, has been subjected to higher duties; Great Britain, by the conquest of Canada and Senegal, having got almost the monopoly of those commodities.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Great

• I want people to understand that there is a group of Christians out there who want to be more open and understanding and tolerant and loving of all kinds of people, even the people that don't believe in God at all.

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• Writing is just always hard for me. It always feels like drawing blood. It's never particularly easy.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Writing
  • Drawing

• I'm not always interested in Hollywood norms and boy-next-door kind of characters.

  

  Kelly Masterson
  • Boy
  • Door

• Anytime I get down to Miami, it's a wonderful thing.

  

  Bill Goldberg

• A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn't charge more after midnight - or anything before midnight.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Baby
  • Midnight

• God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Die
  • Creatures

• I feel like science fiction can get a bad rap sometimes because people make something just to throw an alien in it or just to make it weird, and it doesn't really have a story.

  

  Drew Roy
  • People
  • Bad
  • Science

• I think it all comes back to the individual. My instrument's just a pile of metal and wood! If you listen to the way I speak I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument that concept comes through very clearly. In fact some people who've seen me play have noticed that I'm singing - but it's more that I'm actually speaking. So it's not really about the instrument. But for me, in my thinking, the music is all about the melody. When I compose, 99 percent of the time I start with the melody.

  

  Stefon Harris
  • People
  • Music
  • Singing

• My characters in my movies are all flawed. You'll probably never see Tom Hanks in a Doug Liman film. He plays, you know, very earnest and unflawed.

  

  Doug Liman