Geoffrey Beene Quotes
Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't do impressions of my folks. When I'm doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you're laughing, I'm thinking, 'When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?'
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.
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I'm good friends with Lee Westwood. Bubba, Rickie Fowler. A few of the top hitters.
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The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
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I've only ever tried to be me.
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My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
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Most people have never been listened to, and they've never been asked questions that they want to be asked.
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I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
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I've spent most of my life in cities, and so I've always lived with the curiosity about what makes for city cultures and how peoples live in cities, how peoples anywhere manage to co-exist, the public life and the private life.
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I'm lucky my wife is a strong woman. She's one of the stronger people I've ever met. It's hard for me to be away, but I know my home life is fine because my wife is there.
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Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.
