Phil Lord Quotes
We like the challenge of a story around the most generic, forgettable man in the universe.
Quotes to Explore
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
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A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
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With fandom, people are sensitive, and sometimes defensive, about their experiences.
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Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
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From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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My family and I moved at least six times before I graduated high school. I was fortunate to have a large family network that combined their resources to help me accomplish my goals - but not everyone may be as lucky.
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I’ve always loved Alice Cooper.
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The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.
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Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.
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Health can never be divorced from strength.
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We like the challenge of a story around the most generic, forgettable man in the universe.
