Jonathan Nolan Quotes
We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.
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Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.
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You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
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I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
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We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.
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We filmed 'Expelled' in Santa Clarita at an all-girl's school. There were twelve hour days.
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I'm not that interested in people.
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My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
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I am very shy with people I don't know.
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Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.
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Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
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Random events often come like the raisins in a box of cereal - in groups, streaks, and clusters. And although Fortune is fair in potentialities, she is not fair in outcomes.
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Being a wife-mother and doing a job, it's the toughest damn thing in the world. But we want it.
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The hardest battle you’re ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.
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The married woman as family provider beside the man, often also in place of the man, but always however subservient to the man's dominion - this is the worst form of woman slavery our time has created.
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Immigration policy is a complicated issue. Or perhaps one should say immigration policies are complicated, since we have many different immigration laws and practices which interact in complex ways.
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I have the unique distinction of being on the only Olympic team to lose without controversy, and the only Pan Am Games team to lose without controversy.
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This morning, I went to wipe my hands on a tea towel, and while I was using it, it seemed like it felt a bit light. I unfolded it and realized my daughter had cut little bits out of it to make frocks for her dolls!
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One must use the weapons one finds in one's path.
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For a while, he was far better than the team around him, and he could give me fits..
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You always need a textural landscape. I think that's what fashion is about, and I think when you come to a brand and you're trying to re-instill its history, the history only comes through being personal.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.
