Jan de Bont Quotes
Technology is a major tool in exploring and challenging your creativity, but it can also overtake your creativity... My mind goes very fast, and I can see all kinds of images that would be spectacular on the screen. But they would cost so much money, and would they really make the story that much better?
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.
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'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
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Law graduates have always ended up in business, government, journalism and other fields. Law schools could do more to build these subjects into their coursework.
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.
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In high school, the fastest I ever ran was like a 4.67; that's pretty fast. But then, I only weighed 168 pounds.
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I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I see myself as extremely lucky.
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'Halal in the Family' will expose a broad audience to some of the realities of being Muslim in America. By using satire, we will encourage people to reconsider their assumptions about Muslims, while providing a balm to those experiencing anti-Muslim bias. I also hope those Uncles and Aunties out there will crack a smile!
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Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
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What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.
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Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like.
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I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality.
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We like to say we hope to be like the Girl Scouts of technology, having many different chapters in many different states as well as many different countries.
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When you are going through something that heavy, for me anyway, I couldn't imagine writing about anything else. I always tend to write about what's most prevalent in my mind.
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Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.
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Technology is a major tool in exploring and challenging your creativity, but it can also overtake your creativity... My mind goes very fast, and I can see all kinds of images that would be spectacular on the screen. But they would cost so much money, and would they really make the story that much better?
