Doug Liman Quotes
I've really pushed the limits of what you can get away with at big studios, and I've been extremely well-supported.
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Everything can be satirized.
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My main thing is music; it's what I do.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.
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When you're younger, you feel like work is work and relationships are supposed to be easy. As you get older, you realize you have to work at relationships to make them sustainable.
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I wanted to try marathon running, but something always came up: I had a baby and a C-section or I got injured or I just didn't think I could run that far.
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You can't meditate on walking or certain human habits. You concentrate too much on the way you walk, and you'll start walking pretty weird.
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Should you create a protagonist based directly on yourself? The problem with this - and it is a very large problem - is that almost no one can view himself objectively on the page. As the writer, you're too close to your own complicated makeup.
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None of the parties want this conflict to go on.
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The reason why I love to win is because I don't have to go through that feeling of losing. It's those times where I lose that feeling that will stick with me.
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Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation.
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There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are.
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Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce.
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The ideals of liberalism have been divorced from any realities of modern social structure that might serve as the means of their realization. ... The detachment of liberalism from the facts of a going society make it an excellent mask for those who do not, cannot, or will not do what would have to be done to realize its ideals.
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It’s a poor atom blaster that won’t point both ways.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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It's something that black men still go through to this day, which is women clutching their purses, hitting the lock button on store, or just basic attitudes. And even as a U.S. congressman, as a black man, it is very, very frustrating, and you build up an internal anger about it that you can't act on.
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Sometimes you have to let people down in order to get on, particularly in showbusiness.
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My big chip is that I never had an education. I wanted my children to get one so they didn't fall into the same trap as me.
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I've really pushed the limits of what you can get away with at big studios, and I've been extremely well-supported.
