Jeff Nichols Quotes
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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People come over, and we watch things like 'The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.' I have a hot tub. Everybody puts on a bathing suit and we splash around.
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But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan.
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I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.
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Growing companies need commercial space, and their employees need to live nearby.
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The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
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In the summer of 2000, four college friends and I grew mustaches, bought highway patrol uniforms, and shot a $1.2 million budgeted independent film called 'Super Troopers.'
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When I was a kid, we watched the Vietnam War on the six o'clock news, and it was desensitizing. You felt you were watching a war film; meanwhile you were really watching these guys getting blown to bits. Parents need to protect their kids from watching that stuff.
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I like scripts. I spend a lot of time writing them.
