John Hillcoat Quotes
In Australia in the '70s, there was a real embrace of different genres. And then George Miller did 'Mad Max' by the end of the '70s, the beginning of the '80s. And it was really thriving.
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The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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After I started being able to grow a beard, I was obviously done at Disney - until I'm old enough to be a parent or an annoying older brother.
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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I've got a publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who's been working little miracles for me, but it's true the budgets aren't what they once were in terms of advertisement and book tours.
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Honestly, there's so many great benefits of wearing a kilt: It's very free, it's got its own aeration, and they're very comfortable.
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We have met the enemy and he is us.
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We have to be able to use our imaginations to make the character's experiences real to us.
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When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.
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It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
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He who walks may see and understand. You can study all America from one hilltop, if your eyes are open and your mind is willing to reach. But first you must walk to that hill.
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The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
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In Australia in the '70s, there was a real embrace of different genres. And then George Miller did 'Mad Max' by the end of the '70s, the beginning of the '80s. And it was really thriving.
