Jeff Nichols Quotes
We have so many films that we can fit into the slate a year, and we spend $100 million on those films in order to make $400 million dollars. We don't spend $20 million in hopes of eking out $40 million.
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That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
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The strong desire to include every vital component of life instead of excluding part of them for the sake of too narrow and dogmatic an approach has characterized my whole life.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
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I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.
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I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
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You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.
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For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.
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I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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On 'Being Mary Jane,' I learned to embrace sex symbol.
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I didn't want to go to Chelsea, because I wanted to play the Champions League and they were sixth in the league.
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The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner.
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The Evangelical party in the Church of Scotland will lay all flat if they be not prevented.
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Catch-22 did not exist, he was positive of that, but it made no difference. What did matter was that everyone thought it existed, and that was much worse, for there was no object or text to ridicule or refute, to accuse, criticize, attack, amend, hate, revile, spit at, rip to shreds, trample upon or burn up.
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This one is a direct challenge to the city's perception of itself. It's made people angry. And it's created a movement we haven't seen around here in a long time.
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The more a religion is aware of its opposition in principle to economic rationalization as such, the more apt are the religion’s virtuosi to reject the world, especially its economic activities.
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We have so many films that we can fit into the slate a year, and we spend $100 million on those films in order to make $400 million dollars. We don't spend $20 million in hopes of eking out $40 million.
