John Hillcoat Quotes
I like to do commercials that are more than just flogging a product. It needs to have something to say. It's always an opportunity for a director to say something substantial and interesting.

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Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
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We must keep both our femininity and our strength.
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I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.
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It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.
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One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.
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Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.
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I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
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We got guys who can score. Everybody knows guys can score.
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There's no guarantee that the United States will be around 200 years from now.
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As the 2016 campaign has graphically illustrated, Trump doesn't treat rivals gently. Testifying before a congressional committee in 1993, he began with his rote protestations of friendship.
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When you see a Sudanese walking on the street, there is a story.
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I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues.
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My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.
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I like to do commercials that are more than just flogging a product. It needs to have something to say. It's always an opportunity for a director to say something substantial and interesting.