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 have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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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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We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.
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I'm not the most famous guy in the world; my work is spread out across different mediums, and I never write the same kind of story and rarely even do the same character from one year to the next.
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We must work-in the words of New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton-to really see each other. Perhaps the reason we struggle as a nation is because we’ve come to see only what we represent, at face value, instead of who we are. We simply must see the people we serve.
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Ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
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Commissioners are obsessed with young people, which is funny because they don't watch telly - only old people do.
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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.
