Douglas Trumbull Quotes
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
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I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
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I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew up listening to Cheryl King, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor, and was just always inspired by that sort of organic art, and organic songs and just very natural songwriting that came out of some of those artists.
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The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.
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Sometimes a scene works and acting is the easiest thing in the world and you don't have to do much of anything - just enjoy yourself and listen to the other actor. When it doesn't work, then every actor has different ways of dealing with the impasse. Sometimes you use memories from the past. Whatever. It depends from job to job.
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When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.
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We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
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There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.
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He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful.
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Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite, which dislocate all mathematical operations.
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Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.
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In general, we run the farm like a business instead of a welfare recipient, and we adhere to historically-validated patterns.
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Coaching takes patience. I'm more enthused when teaching players who want it versus when I have to.
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Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
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Afghanistan's winters in the north are legendarily harsh, and southern Afghanistan, by contrast, is bleak desert. These difficulties are compounded by the fact that Afghanistan is one of the world's most heavily mined countries.
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Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
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Get your product in front of actual, living, breathing strangers. Your college roommate's approval does not mean there's market demand.
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I was different unique and always happy. At school this attracted playground harassment. Nowadays, while I remain effervescent, quicker to perceive enmity I reserve my warmest touches and smiles for those who smolder with envy.
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I think miniatures are still superior to a lot of computer graphics.
