Paul Schrader (Paul Joseph Schrader) Quotes
One of the things that I do like about filmmaking is that you find out how to solve new problems.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
Barbara Deming
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
Maggie Cheung
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I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
Gary Ross
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I knew very early on that I wasn't Brad Pitt.
Eddie Marsan
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I had no interest in steroids. I didn't need them, and I didn't want them. I never wanted them. From the get-go, I've frequently mouthed off about their negative impact on the game.
Gary Sheffield
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
Salman Rushdie
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Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
Kaley Cuoco
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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
Gary Ross
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I have got no problem with used games. I've bought plenty of used games.
Warren Spector
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
Tea Obreht
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I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
Fran Lebowitz
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Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog.
Harold Feinstein
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Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.
Zygmunt Bauman
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I just want to do good material. If I'm right for it, and it connects with me, and the material is good, I'm not going to say 'I'm just going to do this' or 'I have to do one of everything.' I'm not thinking like that.
Sam Underwood
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It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes.
Wanda Sykes
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
Gaston Bachelard
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One of the most ridiculous defenses of foreign aid is that it is a very small part of our national income. If the average American set fire to a five-dollar bill, it would be an even smaller percentage of his annual income. But everyone would consider him foolish for doing it.
Thomas Sowell
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Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math parents must push and help their children to meet this goal.
Ernest Istook
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I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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There are few problems in this world that cannot be solved by a swift roundhouse kick to the face. In fact, there are none.
Chuck Norris
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One of the things that I do like about filmmaking is that you find out how to solve new problems.
Paul Schrader