Jeff Nichols Quotes
There are great advantages of making things on the independent market. There's freedom and control there, and kind of a cleanness to the process that I like.
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I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
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Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.
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Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.
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Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.
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On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.
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The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
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I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?
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There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.
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It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
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I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.
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Ninety-nine percent of the time, when it comes down to it, if I have the choice between a great role and seeing a new guy, I would probably go for the great role because I figure if the guy's really that great that he'll be around once I'm done with the movie.
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That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.
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As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.
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One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
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Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.
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For me, as an actor, there is no commercial or independent or art cinema. For me, it's a character that is given by the director. And it is a task for me that I have to fulfill it to the best of my ability regardless of the kind of film that it is.
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I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock, my mom was working with Martin Scorsese - and it was the great summer of my childhood.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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Having a clone would make it so much easier - it would be great to send a clone to a TV station when I have to get up at 4am.
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I honestly don't think about myself; it's more about my kids. They were both born in L.A., and they're like little beams of sun, little tornadoes, and they can't be in a confined space. And one of the things I love most about L.A. is the freedom there.
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Our goal is not to produce immediate results. We've been tasked with producing long-term results. That means that there's more risk in any individual thing we take on. But we still aspire to a strong return on investment.
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It's great to be up for 'Best Newcomer' and 'Sexiest Male.'
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The Chinese novel was written primarily to amuse the common people. And when I say amuse I do not mean only to make them laugh, though laughter is also one of the aims of the Chinese novel. I mean amusement in the sense of absorbing and occupying the whole attention of the mind. I mean enlightening that mind by pictures of life and what that life means.
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There are great advantages of making things on the independent market. There's freedom and control there, and kind of a cleanness to the process that I like.
