Dries van Noten Quotes
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
Yogi Berra -
'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
Lake Bell -
Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
Barry Hannah -
I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I knew that if I didn't make some changes, I was going to go in the wrong direction.
Aaron Schock -
I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
Damian Marley
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
Malorie Blackman -
I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
Yves Saint Laurent -
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
Calvin Coolidge -
To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.
Karen Kain -
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
Victor Hugo -
No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
Abraham Lincoln
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
Forest Whitaker -
It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.
Samuel Beckett -
I don't believe in the model of pure inspiration. All of my creative work stems from a dialogue with others.
Rachel Kushner -
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
Pablo Picasso -
I want to play a psycho, something more challenging than just 'the girlfriend' part.
Barbara Palvin -
Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
Rachel Kushner
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
Upamanyu Chatterjee -
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian -
I felt a curious thrill, as if something had stirred in me, half wakened from sleep. There was something very remote and strange and beautiful behind those words, if I could grasp it, far beyond ancient English.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
We know that families and kids are going to be an important part of our audience, so we've always made sure that we've picked subject matter that was appropriate for kids. But I think if you try to target a movie to kids, you're going to fail.
Lee Unkrich -
In my opinion, the BBC are one of the best producers of drama in the world, and it made me incredibly happy to get the opportunity to be one of the leading men in one of their productions.
Luke Pasqualino -
My childhood was very, very, very, very traditional.
Dries van Noten