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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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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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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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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It is African scholars themselves who will create the ultimate Encyclopaedia Africana.
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I would definitely like to continue playing Aquaman. Playing a superhero is a lot of fun. Creating these stories is a lot of fun. I do what I love. And what I love is entertaining people.
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I try to educate people about materialism through my work. I try to show them real visual luxury.
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The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.
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Most people think that to meditate, I should feel a particular special something, and if I don't, then I must be doing something wrong.
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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.
