Jonathan Mostow Quotes
The place I begin is with story. If the audience doesn't care about that, then it doesn't matter how amazing the spectacle is. My central philosophy is that people go to the movies to be told a story, not to see stuff blow up.Jonathan Mostow
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
Natasha Trethewey -
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
Samuel Butler -
Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
Malala Yousafzai -
I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
Gaby Hoffmann -
The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
Salman Rushdie -
So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
Sally Ride
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
Walter Cronkite -
You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
Larry Page -
A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
Frances Beinecke -
Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
Salman Rushdie -
The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
Dan Savage -
They hate whom they fear.
Quintus Ennius
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I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don't want to be walking down the street with a bodyguard. I don't think that will be an issue playing in L.A.
Zack Greinke -
I think prom is just about enjoying yourself.
Victoria Justice -
I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.
Usher -
It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to decide what has to go.
W. Bruce Cameron -
Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.
Umberto Eco -
When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
Mac Thornberry
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Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.
Ban Ki-moon -
Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
I was a rotten kid. My excitement came from seeing what I could get away with.
Louis Zamperini -
History provides many examples of democracy crushed by people who said to be the champion of "genuine democracy" and "the people's real meaning". The realization about this may lead us to a defence position that conceals that democracy is an extraordinarily demanding way of rule. It must constantly find new ways to revitalize, to reach out to people and make them active. Dictatorships offers a machinery of obedience, closed and externally well-oiled. Democracy is based on fairness, openness and pulsating life. Therefore it must constantly be won again.
Olof Palme -
The place I begin is with story. If the audience doesn't care about that, then it doesn't matter how amazing the spectacle is. My central philosophy is that people go to the movies to be told a story, not to see stuff blow up.
Jonathan Mostow