Doug Liman Quotes
To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.
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The thing about doing anything artificial to your hair is that you have to look after it. So you're always vulnerable to the weather and time.
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
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Some on the Left can be very selective about the kinds of violence they oppose. For some of them, gun violence is a crime to be decried - unless it is committed by an 'aggrieved' victim against what they consider a corrupt institution.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.
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I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
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I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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It is important for us to be able to meet and greet the people that we serve. And if we start having police presence everywhere we go, it's going to create a chilling effect on discourse, and it creates an incredible assault on the democratic process.
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A lot of rumours on the Internet are wrong and horrible.
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I just don't feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I'm getting. It's purely the numbers of people that want a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me.
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I'm currently working on a romantic comedy between me and Philip Seymour Hoffman. So my next step is to write something so mind-blowingly spectacular that he has no other choice but to agree to do it! Wish me luck.
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To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.
