Jeff Nichols Quotes
I love 'Lawrence of Arabia,' big sweeping films. I want my films to feel that way, to be on a big canvas.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.
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Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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It would be so depressing to be a model and not get to say a word. There's no personality involved.
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Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
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Be yourself, but always your better self.
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I mean, Internet radio, which is basically a guy with his iTunes putting it over the computer, is the only way you're going to get true eclectic music programmed.
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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The death of Garang has unfortunately unleashed emotions of anger; some genuine, others cultivated by elements who wanted to pit one group of Sudanese against another.
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Chinese sausage, which is widely available from Asian grocers and online, is sweet, rich, and enticingly smoky. I add it to steamed rice with strips of omelette and a few baby veg stir-fried with soy.
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To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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O bitter is it to abide In weariness alway: At dawn to sigh for eventide, At eventide for day. Thy noon hath fled: thy sun hath shone: The brightness of thy day is gone: What need to lag and linger on Till life be cold and gray?
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At some point in time I will be honored if I would be mentioned as a coach.
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I knew nothing when I first met him. He taught me to see things through his eyes. Dalí was my teacher. He let me use his brushes, his paint and his canvas, so that I could play around while he was painting for hours and hours in the same studio. Surrealism was a good school for me. Listening to Dalí talk was better than going to any art school.
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'Fury' whetted my appetite for a bigger canvas and this idea of world creation. You can do amazing things as a filmmaker if you have the proper tools, and those are time and money.
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You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical.
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By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition.
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I love 'Lawrence of Arabia,' big sweeping films. I want my films to feel that way, to be on a big canvas.
