Brett Ratner Quotes
Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.
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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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There's more to life than physical and material.
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China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
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I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
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Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.
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I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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It's like a painter with various layers of paint. I start with a drum loop and add keyboards, and then melodies start to take shape. The vocals happen later. I've never really done therapy before, but it's a form of therapy. Everything else falls away.
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I don't think that attorneys should be in any way running for governor.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!
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Webern was a kind of 'Kamchatka of music,' an unknown country of music. That's true; for me and people of my generation, he was a radical - you couldn't be more radical than he was.
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There are expectations in how you play your character as a black woman, to be sassy and the same kind of feel, as if there are no quirky black women. I struggle with those things constantly, trying to add dimension to my work, and that's the goal, too.
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In the age of activism that is clearly not going away, it would seem that some form of engagement from directors with shareholders - rather than directors simply taking their cues from management - would go a long way toward helping boards work on behalf of all shareholders rather just the most vocal.
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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
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Nothing in the world can take my peace away from me.
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Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.
