Brian De Palma Quotes
I have swum against the stream all my life. It's not something I feel uncomfortable with. Is it difficult? Is it unpleasant? You bet.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.
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'YouKu' means what's best and what's cool in Chinese. So, the whole product philosophy really revolves around how to help users, from a massive video database, finds what's best and what's cool.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.
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I have a hands-off policy when it comes to my larynx.
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And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn't necessarily given to me, and that people didn't necessarily think that I would be able to do.
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Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!
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If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?
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I have swum against the stream all my life. It's not something I feel uncomfortable with. Is it difficult? Is it unpleasant? You bet.
