Doug Liman Quotes
Amazon may be the only studio that's run by people who come out of making independent movies, real hands-on moviemaking.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.
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I'm really nearsighted, which has served me well.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played a gay character, and that would fascinate me because I'm not gay, so that would interest me.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.
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When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
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Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
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Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational.
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I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.
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We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs.
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I love kids.
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Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day.
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My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.
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I'm not truly embarrassed that, you know, President Bush is from my state, that's not really what I care about, ... Primetime Thursday.
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Amazon may be the only studio that's run by people who come out of making independent movies, real hands-on moviemaking.
