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I strive to make movies I would enjoy.

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• The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Time
  • Like
  • Arts

• You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Earth
  • Green
  • Grass

• No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Person
  • Language
  • Mouth

• Let every man be true and every god a liar.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • God
  • True
  • Man

• An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Society
  • Intellectual
  • Call

• I think it's always very important to be comfortable and just kind of expressive; if you take fashion too seriously, then you lose the fun of it. I think you should always take the risk.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Fashion

• Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Fighting
  • Poverty
  • Programs

• There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Extraordinary
  • Selling

• Spirituality lies in what you do and how you do it and not what result you get.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • You
  • Lies
  • Result

• I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then – because they got fired – the record company wouldn't do anything for me.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Relationship
  • Company
  • Playing

• The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • America
  • Lies
  • Greatness

• For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form. … You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And I'd say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Future
  • Beautiful

• The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

  

  Lewis Thomas
  • Science
  • Control
  • Poetry

• I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I'm the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I'm not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So I'm just relaxing and enjoying it.

  

  Betty White
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• I just think religion is something... It could be a beautiful thing for the individual, but when it becomes organized, that's when religion starts taking a kind of ugly turn to me.

  

  Daron Malakian System Of A Down
  • Beautiful
  • Ugly

• What really is nasty is showing your back to the Puerto Rican people.

  

  Carmen Yulin Cruz
  • People
  • Nasty

• The concept of making a movie in which the director dictates is kind of exotic - and absolutely not truthful. Directing means allowing a great deal of collaboration and listening and having the ability to change your mind.

  

  Luca Guadagnino
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Movie

• There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

  

  Matthew Simpson
  • Truth

• Yes, it's important to make things great, and you can certainly do this by upgrading over time, but good and profitable is better than perfect and never done.

  

  Lewis Howes
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• I'm not interested in Botox or getting a facelift. There comes a point where you have to let go and accept that you are no longer the youngest and that you have other things to offer.

  

  Jade Jagger

• Love to be real, it must cost – it must hurt – it must empty us of self.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Love
  • Hurt

• Sometimes you're pushing and what you want to do is not coming with ease; doors are not opening. A lot of times we're pushing against resistance. If one looks closely, there is often a message in that resistance: "Wait a minute, maybe it's not what you're supposed to be doing."

  

  Farrah Gray
  • Sometimes
  • Looks
  • Doors

• Truth is one, single, and it can never be misinterpreted. To know the truth it is essential that whatever human awareness we have got, it has to be expanded. There is something still lacking in that awareness by which we cannot know God, we cannot know the truth.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Yoga

• I strive to make movies I would enjoy.

  

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