Phil Lord Quotes
We like the challenge of a story around the most generic, forgettable man in the universe.
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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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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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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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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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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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He who will not economize will agonize.
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I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
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I think the first villain that I ever played was on 'Stargate'. I was this superior being that would take over a human host and believe that he was the most superior being in the universe.
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I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.
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Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty...
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We like the challenge of a story around the most generic, forgettable man in the universe.
