James Mangold Quotes
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Tone can be as important as text.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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Like a bottle of wine or a promising college quarterback turning pro, C.E.O.'s are similar to what economists call experience goods: you commit to a price long before you know if they're worth it.
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There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
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I did my thesis on clowns. It's a powerful thing when you've got this little red nose on. It's a mask, the smallest in the world, but it unveils you. You stand up there and do these exercises that free you, let you play, and see what comes out. What comes out is the truth.
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The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.
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Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.
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Without literature my life would be miserable.
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To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.
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I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
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What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.
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Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.
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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
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It's much easier to come back as a recurring character. Because you already know his traits and who he is and what he's about.
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Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
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When life caves in, you do not need reasons -- you need comfort. You do not need some answers -- you need someone. And Jesus does not come to us with an explanation -- He comes to us with His presence.
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There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.
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I would not trade America's position in the world - our ledger, our debts and assets - for any country in the world. There isn't a country in the world even close to America.
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None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.
