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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Anything can happen someday, even that an act conforming to honour and honesty can end up, at the end of the line, as a good political decision.
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The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.
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We need the best and the brightest to go into public service.
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I do enjoy a beer. And a shot of vodka with some apple juice is what loosens me up before I go onstage, because I get really nervous. I wish I could say it was something more healthy, like Pilates.
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There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.
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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.
