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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I started acting when I was really young. I knew I wanted to be in the industry in other ways. I knew that I wanted to do more than just act. I don't know that I knew it was screenwriting, but I just knew that I wanted to be involved.
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I used to say, read as much as you can. Now I say, read the best that you can, the stories that resonate with you, the books that are important to you. Try to read, not only as a reader, but also as a writer, to deconstruct how the author is telling his or her story.
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Otherwise there can be no progress with an administration in which there are terrorist organizations as members.
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You are as good as your product. When you are used and loved by everyone, your brand equity is high. When you are not, you're not.
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A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
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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.
