Douglas Trumbull Quotes
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.
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If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
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I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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The joke is mightier than the sword.
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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
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I have an outdoor kitchen at home in Georgia, and I try to never eat inside.
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I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms.
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I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.
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I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.
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I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'
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I'm not a self-promoter. I'm not on TV all the time.
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I listen to a lot of Solange. I love old-school as well.
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My story is the story of thousands of children from around the world. I hope it inspires others to stand up for their rights.
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Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.
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People still say to me, 'What was it like being in such a huge flop?' The amount of hatred and vitriol was surprising.
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Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.
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God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that He act in ways that satisfy my idea of justice. It is the same spirit that taunted, "If Thou be the Son of God, come down from the Cross." There is unbelief, there is even rebellion, in the attitude that says, "God has no right to do this to five men unless...
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Sometimes I'm wrong, sometimes not. But I'm an instinctual player.
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Marriage is forever. It's like cement.
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That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?
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I want my ashes either with some really good primo or as some fertilizer for plants.
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I learned a lot on '2001.'
