Jonathan Nolan Quotes
We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.Jonathan Nolan
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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.
Cameron Mackintosh -
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.
Iris Apfel -
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.
Damian Lewis -
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.
Yahoo Serious -
Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
Sam Levenson -
I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.
Bas Rutten
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We filmed 'Expelled' in Santa Clarita at an all-girl's school. There were twelve hour days.
Cameron Dallas -
I'm not that interested in people.
Taylor Caldwell -
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.
Octavia E. Butler -
I am very shy with people I don't know.
Ingmar Bergman -
Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.
Dan Simmons -
Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
C. S. Lewis
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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.
Anne Baxter -
The hardest battle you’re ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.
Leo Buscaglia -
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.
Ellen Key -
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.
Bill Kristol -
We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.
Paulo Coelho -
As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films.
Paul Thomas Anderson
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I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a good man, a real simple man... Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun.
Max Lucado -
Sometimes you're inspired by an old-school song that you want to chop up and make a sample out of it. I find that with a lot of older Motown music.
Bishop Briggs -
Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that's really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do - that has nothing to do with anything.
Phylicia Rashad -
'Iron can destroy anything: families, fortunes, governments,whole countries. It's the most powerful stuff in the universe.''Oh?' Orry's skeptical glance fell down on the Plain below. 'You really think it's more powerful than a big army?''Without weapons - without this - there are no big armies.'
John Jakes -
Neither antiquity nor any other nation has imagined a more atrocious and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating God. - This is how Christians treat the autocrat of the universe.
Frederick the Great -
We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.
Jonathan Nolan