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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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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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 promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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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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There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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I can't stop being in parades. I just love dancing on floats that move really slowly on the city streets in the early morning.
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I have a very strong tool in competitional enforcement: To do merger control, to look into cartels, misuse of dominant position - when member states hand out favors, for instance, in terms of tax breaks. But even though that's a strong tool, it cannot solve everything.
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I'd be happy if anyone wore my fragrance. They don't have to be famous.
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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.
