John Hillcoat Quotes
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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To tell you the truth, I don't really follow what men wear. Men's fashion is much simpler than women's. It doesn't change as much.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
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When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.
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There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.
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I run about four to five miles, three days a week. I have four young children, so pretty much the only time I can get away is real early in the morning.
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I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England.
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Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.
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Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
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I am keen to maintain very good relations and develop the relationship with the United States.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, 'I will not concentrate on this note.' You cannot ignore things the way you do in the rest of your life.
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Sometimes I say things that I can't believe came out of my mouth. Or I won't mean something and it will come out completely nonsensical.
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Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism.
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers. They just go and look it up or they just chat with someone. In other words, relying on something rather than saying: 'Okay, I've got the information, how do I create value from it?'
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The only thing of real importance that leader do is to create and manage culture.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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The first songs I made brought me to the Grammys. I was a five-times nominated teenager off voice memos and songs that were clearly recorded off different mics.
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It's such an intense thing to make a film.
