Jeff Nichols Quotes
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.
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Absolutely father knows best, always do what your fathers say, and if you can't find one then just ask me, I am a father and I know best.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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I care less about selling tickets and getting Twitter followers than I do about making as many people laugh as I can. I'd rather make people laugh than make them know who T.J. Miller is.
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If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
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I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.
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However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.
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I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. If you don't like it, you just don't follow it. And if you don't like a movie you don't watch it. Watch another movie.
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I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
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Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension - and we're too polite to talk about it.
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There are definitely scripts I start reading, where it doesn't interest me. Maybe it'll be a good movie, but the character doesn't intrigue me.
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I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.
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If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
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If you want to do something, what does it matter where you are ranked?
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It's not easy to have the job of president. It's not easy to run for it. And it's not a job for the feint of heart.
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Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.
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I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.
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I only became interested in clothes when I was in my mid-teens. I'd do things like spike my hair and put on a nice shirt, but I'd hardly call myself fashion-conscious. I just don't have the energy.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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Barye... did not teach us much ; he was always worried and tired when he came, and always told us that it was very good.
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I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris. It was rainy. It was all wrong. And I was thinking, 'God, she loved life so much.'
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It's amazing how far you can get into a plot before you figure out what you're doing.
