Jeff Nichols Quotes
There's a reason why I use film. It's because it's the best representation of how our eyes work. I really believe that. I think it's better than digital.
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where residents have had fewer civic resources than those extended to other outlying communities.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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Progress? It ought to be stopped, that's what I say. If the Lord meant chickens to come out of incubators he'd never have made hens, it stands to reason.
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I prefer to work for my country in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want to die free. I am always suspicious of ideology. Instead, I respect men with ideas.
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I was a tomboy. I had a pudding-bowl haircut; I wore big Doc Martens and dungarees.
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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I'm basically a country person.
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There's a reason why I use film. It's because it's the best representation of how our eyes work. I really believe that. I think it's better than digital.
