Douglas Trumbull Quotes
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It's like a hangover.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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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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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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I'm a model, but I love to eat.
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Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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No connection to the average voter - Clinton has an air of superiority. Despite her wide smile and pleasant appearance, she is envisioned as someone who is trying to hide something all the time.
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The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.
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Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.
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In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
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I would go out with people who really didn't like me very much and then wonder why we weren't getting married!
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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.
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The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels.
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The technology of the time dictated the way things looked.
