John Hillcoat Quotes

I like restraint. Even with actors, restraint is something that I work on the most.

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• The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.

  

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• After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.

  

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• The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

  

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• Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

  

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• I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.

  

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• It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.

  

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• I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

  

  Gary Cole
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• The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

  

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• I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.

  

  Kat Dahlia
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• I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.

  

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• I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.

  

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• The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

  

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• Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.

  

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• My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.

  

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• A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

  

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• I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.

  

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• No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.

  

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• I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.

  

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• I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.

  

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• Improv requires one thing I lack that I think most mothers need - the basic instinct to put someone else first.

  

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• I drop styles on ears...the public bite 'em. Not many went to school, so the dummies wouldn't write 'em. They say, "Yo Keith! You're Kool, you usin' big words!" I went to college, I'm even more stupid, herb.

  

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• People don't necessarily expect singles from me. They expect full bodies of work.

  

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• When you say journalist, it's like oh - how many sources have you fact checked? When you say photographer - it's, why are your photos a little bit out of focus? The answer is because I don't care. I like to call myself a storyteller so I don't have to worry about other people's definition of what correct work is.

  

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• I like restraint. Even with actors, restraint is something that I work on the most.

  

  John Hillcoat
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