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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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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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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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
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I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.
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We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
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The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.
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After an incompletion, you can probably tell the difference.
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Reinvention is the key to surviving this fashion industry. Madonna is the perfect example of reinvention. She has taken something that is so little and turned herself into a legend by simply never staying the same.
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My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music.
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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.
