Doug Liman Quotes
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I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.
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The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
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I've done 20 takes of a Vine before it goes out.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.
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Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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If you look at Republicans, they always run these old war horses.
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I say that Pakistanis should not consider girls as weaklings.
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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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Executives are waking up to realize that they can do a lot better, save money, make better decisions if they optimize and start thinking geographically and have a location strategy.
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The unspoken word never does harm.
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Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?
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When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.
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You can't merge six banks and think that nothing will happen.
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I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.
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i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses
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If I'm not going to bet on myself, why would anyone else bet on me.
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I was a high school senior and home alone one night with my younger brother. And a guy - gunman - kicked in our front door at our home in New Jersey and held the two of us captive. We escaped. He caught us again. We escaped again. So, a pretty horrific experience.
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My older brother took me to Woody Allen double features when I was still teething.
