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 Sun Dancers also put rabbit skins on their arms and legs, for the rabbit represents humility, because he is quiet and soft and not self-asserting - a quality which we must all possess when we go to the center of the world.
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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All cultures forged by nations—the noble indigenous past of America, the brilliant civilization of Europe, the wise history of Asian nations, and the ancestral wealth of Africa and Oceania—are corroded by the American way of life. In this way, neoliberalism imposes the destruction of nations and groups of nations in order to reconstruct them according to a single model. This is a planetary war, of the worst and cruelest kind, waged against humanity.
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I think the most important thing in life is relationships. I think that feeds us almost like food.
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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.
