Jonathan Nolan Quotes
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A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.
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I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
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I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
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Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an exception for me when I was 14 because she didn't want me to be self-conscious about my height - or to slouch.
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There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.
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I was born free.
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Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?
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Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.
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I think the real needs in the country are for cultural renewal.
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Many ingredients are called 'earthy,' but none comes as close to fitting the bill as buckwheat. I'm mildly obsessed with the stuff.
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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
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It must be so hard trying to figure yourself out in this industry. Justin Bieber has hit rock-bottom with everyone watching him; that is just so tough.
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We burden ourselves with useless ideas which we carelessly take as facts. Instead of letting reality come as a new surprise, we insist that it conform to our habitual concepts, and thus, we spoil everything.
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A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.
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Politics is a game of compromise.
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It's the nicest birthday I've ever had. You've made a happy man very old.
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For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.
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The bottom line is, if somebody doesn't go through proper security screening, they're not going to go on the flight.
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I was 28 before I started putting on productions. I got in the back door by doing fringe shows and a lot of assisting, and I learned on the job. There weren't many female directors when I was starting out. I slowly gained confidence and understanding of the theater, but on my own terms.
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The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger.
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It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.
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None of us like violence in the real world, but we're fascinated with it on screen.
