Jean-Marie Messier Quotes
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I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
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You either are or you're not.
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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I have to earn re-election. That's the way I see it.
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When I'm playing a team sport, it's not about one individual, it's about everyone, from me to the other 23 people who were there, to all the support staff who've worked very hard behind the scenes.
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Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
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You just can't help but sort of think that your life and your career are going to go straight up, up, up.
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Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.
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In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.
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I never travel without my sketch book.
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We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.
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Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.
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The dynamic range of a digital camera is not that much greater than film, particularly if you push the ASA a little bit.
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In 1986, Microsoft and Oracle went public within a day of each other, and I recall telling one of my colleagues that the software business will become big. So I started working with software companies in the mid-'80s and never turned back.
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You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions.
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I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.
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I guess a lot of comic-book adaptations strive for realism. Christopher Nolan is making Batman seem very real and very serious.
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I think a big part of my job is to make an atmosphere on set and have an attitude that it's about experimentation, and you can't do anything wrong. It's not about judgment, it's not about me kicking over a chair and storming onto set and acting stuff out and telling people to copy what I do. That is a style of directing some people have, but I don't understand it.
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Making movies is all about compromise, negotiation, and sacrifice, but the process helps you distill what's really important to you, and once you have identified what those these things are for any particular sequence, you hold onto them and don't let them go.
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All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.
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I've learned and grown as a songwriter.
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I eat once a day if I remember, and I try never to go to sleep.
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I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one.
