Douglas Trumbull Quotes

When I was a young man in school, I used to read science fiction and really liked it. And as I became a young artist, I was filling up my portfolio with alien planets and spacecraft and things like that.

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• I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.

  

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• But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

  

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• There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.

  

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• I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.

  

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• The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

  

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• Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.

  

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• The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

  

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• I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.

  

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• Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.

  

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• If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.

  

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• Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

  

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• I want to win football games.

  

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• Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.

  

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• A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.

  

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• I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.

  

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• You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.

  

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• Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.

  

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• Follow me,” Myrnin said. “And do stay together. And by the way, this is the last time I go anywhere with you people. You are all insane.

  

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• I've often noticed that there is a moment when a man develops enough confidence and ease in a relationship to bore you to death. Sometimes one hardly even notices it's happened, that moment, until some careless remark arouses one's suspicions.

  

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• I am always interested in characters who are in these kinds of transitional moments in their lives, when it's not clear where they're going to end up. It's interesting territory for fiction.

  

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• When I was a young man in school, I used to read science fiction and really liked it. And as I became a young artist, I was filling up my portfolio with alien planets and spacecraft and things like that.

  

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