Doug Liman Quotes
I always liked photography in film - I studied photography growing up. I like the medium of film; I like physically holding 35-mm film. I like the way it looks, the quality when it's projected. I like the way it frames real life.
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I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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Women drive box office.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.
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Stay big in your work and small in your life.
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Abortion is an attack on the family and the humanity that unites us all.
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I'm about possibilities and about surprises and the life force.
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You could send your soul after the good you had expected, instead of turning it to the good you had got. You could refuse the real good; you could make the real fruit taste insipid by thinking of the other.
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I always liked photography in film - I studied photography growing up. I like the medium of film; I like physically holding 35-mm film. I like the way it looks, the quality when it's projected. I like the way it frames real life.
