Doug Liman Quotes
When I was making 'Bourne Identity,' I wasn't making a dumb action movie like they were expecting it to be.
Quotes to Explore
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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I have, like, 45 celeb crushes at all times - celeb and Instagram crushes. I'm such a creep.
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Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
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You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
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Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
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I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.
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We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
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I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.
Garry Kasparov -
I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
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I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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For girls growing up, sometimes I think they get the wrong idea for what women should look like.
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When I do a movie, that's just a couple months out of my year and out of my life. All the other months I'm just at home, running around doing errands with my mom and going to sleepovers. I feel like I have that side of my life, and then I also do the films - which is just sort of a plus.
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All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
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Your whole perspective changes on what's possible. You can make dreams happen.
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When I was making 'Bourne Identity,' I wasn't making a dumb action movie like they were expecting it to be.
