Doug Liman Quotes

The reality is, the movies that were most impactful to me growing up, when I decided I wanted to make movies, I was going to see Woody Allen double features with my brother, back when they had double features.

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• Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Nature
  • Death
  • Humility

• The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Know
  • Brain
  • Army

• I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Up
  • Great
  • Home

• It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Fun
  • Acting
  • Actor

• If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Perfect
  • Humility
  • Only

• I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

  

  Faith Ford
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Things

• I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Support

• L.A. makes you feel ugly.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • You
  • Feel
  • Ugly

• Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Distance
  • Improving

• As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Real
  • Father
  • Like

• I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Facts
  • Try
  • Flavor

• The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Work
  • Music
  • Community

• I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Better
  • Loss
  • Getting Better

• I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Man

• Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Politics

• Perhaps the hardest challenge has been to persuade the public, impatient for rapid growth, of the need to ensure stability first. Growth, it is argued, is always more important, regardless of the looming economic risks.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Important
  • Challenge
  • Growth

• Whatever storytelling muscles you've developed as a documentary filmmaker will be extremely helpful as a narrative filmmaker.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • You
  • Storytelling
  • Muscles

• Think against your feelings; unmask the unbelief they have nourished; let evangelical thinking correct emotional thinking.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Thinking
  • Feelings
  • Emotional

• Coach Graham use to ride me hard . . . 'you're doing it all wrong! Go back! Do it again!' An assistant coach muttered that it was a good thing Coach Graham rode me hard, because 'when you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Up
  • Good

• I sometimes overeat or drink too much, but I don't eat chocolate, and I gave up smoking when I was 39.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Up
  • Chocolate
  • Smoking

• You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.

  

  Kit Harington
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• [After a poor prognosis for recovery from her doctor following her 1990 bus accident] I said if it is up to me, I'm going to be OK.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Up
  • Poor
  • Recovery

• The reality is, the movies that were most impactful to me growing up, when I decided I wanted to make movies, I was going to see Woody Allen double features with my brother, back when they had double features.

  

  Doug Liman
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