Douglas Kirkland Quotes
Respect and mutual respect are important. I, for instance, often show my latest work so that people can see how I work.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
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At the end, it's your movie and your performance that stands out. So if I am a good actor, and if am being part of good entertaining engaging films, audiences will like me.
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Garry Kasparov
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The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
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Justice is not always done in this world; we see that everyday. But on the Last Day it will be done for all to see. And no one will be able to complain by saying, "This isn't fair."
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It's hard to take people seriously who say you're totally irresponsible if you go out and climb mountains when you have kids, because they clearly don't understand the circumstances. You can't impose your own acceptance of risk on other people - that's not fair.
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I am not trying to say I'm a genius, but 'Underground' was the strongest attack there has been on Milosevic. It is about a man who locks his friends in a cellar for 40 years and convinces them that the war is still going on. He uses them, but they still think he is a great guy. And this was shown in every cinema in Serbia.
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Respect and mutual respect are important. I, for instance, often show my latest work so that people can see how I work.
