Doug Liman Quotes
I'm really interested in real people in extraordinary situations. The detail and reality to that.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative ways to make sustainability affordable, we can advance the notion that it is possible.
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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I have written about the women around me. My ancestors, my relatives, lovers. It was a way of trying to make it all make sense.
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I grew up in the country. I am a real proud country boy, love getting back home.
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People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.
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Like steampunk, silkpunk is a blend of science fiction and fantasy. But while steampunk takes its inspiration from the chrome-brass-glass technology aesthetic of the Victorian era, silkpunk draws inspiration from East Asian antiquity.
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The first time I heard The Beatles, I cried. It was 'Let it Be'.
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I'm really interested in real people in extraordinary situations. The detail and reality to that.
