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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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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As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!
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I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.
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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
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I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cuba's the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there.
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In short, chronological connectivity puts us in touch with the holy. It is at once humbling and exhilarating. I say this as someone who has never followed any formal religious practice. Connection with the past and the future is a pathway that charms us in the direction of sanity and grace.
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Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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I grew up listening to Nirvana and then went through some bad '90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.
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Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.
