Phil Klay Quotes
I'm generally not a fan of didactic art because it papers over many of the hard experiences about war or anything else in life. I wanted to explore various aspects of the experience without an eye towards delivering any particular message.
Quotes to Explore
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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I was at Second City L.A., going through the conservatory, and I graduated in 2004 and I got 'SNL' in 2005.
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Running your own business is a huge amount of fun, but there's also a huge amount of seriousness, so actually, they level out.
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We cannot leave vulnerable young men open to the exploitation of extremists, both for our own security and their own wellbeing.
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I was born too late to experience Apollo 11, though I do trek to Dad's house every time there's some space event. There's something awesome about crossing your fingers and watching a tense Mission Control room do their thing.
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But all they are all there scraping along to sneeze out a likelihood that will solve and salve life's robulous rebus (12.32-33)
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I'm generally not a fan of didactic art because it papers over many of the hard experiences about war or anything else in life. I wanted to explore various aspects of the experience without an eye towards delivering any particular message.
