Joseph Kosinski Quotes
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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
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The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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Dance has definitely made me a better role model.When I'm performing, I'm always thinking about my face and my look. I used to have a much harder time with it.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.
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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
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When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
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I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
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We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.
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As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.
