Doug Liman Quotes
I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done.
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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No one person is an island.
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Inauguration Day is like two ships passing in the night: the new staff moving in while the other walks out, taking one final look at the White House lawn as they leave with their cardboard box of possessions.
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I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.
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I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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Like every girl, I felt amazing pressure to look like the popular girls, but no one told me the popular girls were all air brushed in magazines.
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I don't pick up my work at all. If it's something that's still in progress and I have the chance to make some edits on the material or think about the order, little things like that, I'll keep those stories at hand and go through them. But once it exists as the book, it's locked away in a vault, and I kind of put it behind me.
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I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at the time; to say 'high Anglo-Catholic' would be a real English understatement.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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I had never done a 90-minute play with no intermission, so it is a bit like you get onto the train and you don't get off until it's over - and it's over very quickly, so don't miss a moment of it. That experience is very rare and specific so don't miss a minute, because there aren't very many minutes of it.
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I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done.
