John Hillcoat Quotes
We talk about that a lot: how, when you're under pressure, it brings out the best and the worst in people.
Quotes to Explore
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months.
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Design can successfully bind the ancient nomadic cultures with today's global marketplace, ensuring the preservation of traditions and knowledge for further generations. This aspect of research is obviously rich in its business potential as well.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.
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Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
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I just can't read music.
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My favorite sequels are basically all Mike Myers films - 'Wayne's World 2,' 'Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,' 'Shrek 2.' Anything he does, it's best the second time around. He needs to do 'So I Married an Axe Murderer 2.'
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I went to a private school in Singapore and they had an incredible arts program. Every day I was doing something artistic.
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I think every day there is some new actress comes out and inspires me to do something else... like Hilary Swank. After she did Boys Don't Cry, I felt this yearning to go out and be even half as good as she was.
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I knew I only had 15 minutes of fame, so I wanted to be sure I did something good with it.
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I try as best as I can to have a normal life. People recognise you, of course, and that's very strange. But I sort of leave my working life behind when I go home. That's my other world.
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We talk about that a lot: how, when you're under pressure, it brings out the best and the worst in people.
