Joseph Kosinski Quotes
I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that.
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Here's the deal with Matty Morrison: He is the most unassuming, nicest, most humble guy, who also happens to be extremely talented.
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It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.
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I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well.
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I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.
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I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.
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Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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Essentially, you have to be aware of a crisis happening: 'Can the company go on if I get hit by a bus?' That's, I think, how you build a great company and something that can scale.
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It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
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If you recognize a face while surfing through 200 channels, you will stop and listen. Celebrities give a positive aura and people like them. Their message appeals to people.
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Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.
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Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it.
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Kelly, Kelly, Kelly. I love your voice man, you give me chills... Brilliant.
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Ninety percent of my ideas come to me either when I'm reading or watching a show.
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The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).
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I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.
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It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?
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A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.
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The revival of consumers saving their money for retirement - rather than expecting their homes to provide the cushion - added with 'move down' buyers will depress real-estate prices.
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that.
