Doug Liman Quotes
The one thing about reality is sometimes it gives you material that is wilder than some of your wildest imagination could come up with.
Quotes to Explore
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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I am neither going to Bollywood nor joining politics.
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I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.
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They're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it.
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Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art.
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I won't read scripts because I have a limited amount of time. Why should I help other people do lame stuff when I can just go out and put on lame stuff of my own?
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We were brought up Protestant, and I went to church three times a day on a Sunday. My parents weren't Bible-bashers, but we all have a strong belief in God and a strong faith. We had a huge garden; our house was a bit like a scene from 'The Good Life.' I think Mam and Dad had it really hard, bringing up a big family on very little.
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People's perceptions of me have nothing to do with reality. I'm basically just your average dork.
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The one thing about reality is sometimes it gives you material that is wilder than some of your wildest imagination could come up with.
