Jeff Nichols Quotes
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.
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Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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People don't listen to terrestrial radio. They don't find their music that way. They don't get their news that way. They go to blogs. They go through Sirius/XM. They go through all these different places.
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The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
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I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
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A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying.
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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science. Great achievement is assured, however, of subsequent recognition and grateful acceptance by public opinion, which in due course will make it one of its own prejudices
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I never wanted to be a film director but after this experience I really loved it. I would love to do more documentaries but it's difficult to find backing for them.
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For each character, I try to understand what is driving them.
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A lot of independent filmmakers are really catty.
