James Mangold Quotes
Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.
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There are regulators at the SEC and elsewhere who are really excited about the potential of the blockchain. They understand you can build a robust financial system - it would solve all your black swan problems. All kinds of mischief and games that are played in the current system become impossible in this system.
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
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In reality, the universe is neutral about our existence. Only dogs care.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all this.
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In general, life is better than it has ever been, and if you think that, in the past, there was some golden age of pleasure and plenty to which you would, if you were able, transport yourself, let me say one single word : Dentistry.
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Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.
