Brett Ratner Quotes
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People take things so seriously.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
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Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
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I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
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If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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Set realistic goals, keep re-evaluating, and be consistent.
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To give up my job as a temp and actually make a living doing comedy, it was staggering.
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I'll read any anthologies or collection I can get my hands on. If I find a book mentioned in 'Publisher's Weekly,' and it looks like it will be dark, I'll track it down.
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I'd been doing the Chicago theatre thing for years. The money was kinda good - thanks to a push by my old pal Capone, who, let's say, persuaded theatre owners to book me.
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If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script.
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The mind as well as the body must be not only strong but well disciplined in order to act with promptness and vigor in new and untried situations. It is hard to turn men's minds from the old and deeply worn channels in which they have long been flowing.
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I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.
