George Hickenlooper Quotes
As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
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I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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If we can provide even a few months of early warning for just one pandemic, the benefits will outweigh all the time and energy we're devoting. Imagine preventing health crises, not just responding to them.
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One place had a winning record that I went to, and that was Detroit. Rick Carlisle laid a foundation that gave us a chance to win a championship.
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I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.
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If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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I had a friend who introduced me to a meditation practice which involves a couple of half-hours a day of meditation, where essentially you try to achieve a stillness that allows you to just be there in the moment.
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Money without brains is always dangerous.
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Medicine has been successful by treating diseases in a very specific way once the damage is done. But telomere length integrates a lot of factors together and gives you an overall picture of risk for what is now emerging as a lot of diseases that tend to occur together, such as diabetes and heart disease.
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I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.
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As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work.
