Jean Renoir Quotes
The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that's where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
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As I get older, I find that wearing bright colors cheers me up.
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Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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What you see in 'Daredevil' and 'Jessica Jones' isn't the Hell's Kitchen of today; it's a version of what it was like.
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High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.
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I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want.
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I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.
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The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.
