Matthew Heineman Quotes
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.
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I have so many pairs of oxfords; it's ridiculous. It started because at my school you have to wear oxfords for our uniform, but after I got my first pair, I realized they were really comfortable, so they became my regular walking shoes, too.
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Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
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There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.
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Researchers have been looking for biomarkers of age for a long time and have failed. People sell tests out there to measure your biological age, and none of them work. There's no evidence that you can measure biological age with any reliability.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.
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Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.
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I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.
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I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.
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I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
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Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
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I liked George Weiss when he was with the Yankees. He loved the Old Timers' Day. He loved it. And he invited all these people to come, all these players to come.
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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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He's the kind of man who was born to rise and rise: a human elevator. (p.7)
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For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.
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Faith is not a political strategy and should not be a political strategy. If it is being used as a tool to garner votes, to convince people they should support one political party or the other, I think that is a huge mistake.
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In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.
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Anything you want for your life, if someone else has done, become, or achieved it, use that as evidence that so can you.
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I have faith in an audience being able to interpret complex material.
