Jeff Nichols Quotes
I'll be honest: 'Badlands' changed my life: it really did rewire my brain as to how film can operate.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.
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In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
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Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.
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There's always been a confusion about my sensibility. 'Is he kind of edgy, or is he Carol Burnett?' I'm a little bit of a hybrid. I like to please, but I like dark stuff, too.
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It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.
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It's a unique thing to stand in front of a crowd and sing your songs.
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For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.
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Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.
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When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
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I'll be honest: 'Badlands' changed my life: it really did rewire my brain as to how film can operate.
