Doug Liman Quotes
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
Larry Hovis -
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
Viggo Mortensen -
During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
Questlove -
A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
S. Jay Olshansky -
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
Quentin Crisp -
We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
Rafik Hariri
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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
Barack Obama -
When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I was authorized to do everything that I did.
Oliver North -
If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
Walter Kirn -
The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
Sally Mann -
I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.
Felicity Jones
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
Wendell Berry -
All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.
Olivia De Havilland -
I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.
Lara Stone -
It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
Laura Wade -
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.
Vikram Seth
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I don't say I was the first, because, who knows, maybe there was a guy out in Minnesota doing it before me.
Don Rickles -
Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.
Chuck Yeager -
When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from 'Sleeping Beauty'-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven, very different, I decided - and indeed it is.
Francine Pascal -
I suggest school buses make stops at local libraries so that children who do not have resources like books at home can get access.
Marley Dias -
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
W. H. Auden -
I subscribe to the school that there are no dumb questions.
Doug Liman