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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I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
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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 won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.
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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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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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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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If you gave me an hour in the day between '09 and '14, I could have told you exactly where I was and what I was doing.
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It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.
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I have a pretty big fund-raising heart.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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Social peace requires reciprocity.
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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.
