Nicholas Stoller Quotes
And also, I'm most comfortable with like two people just sitting and talking about their feeling, you know, in a room with like two cameras and that's it. And I wanted to do something where there was like action and running and you know crowd scenes and big set pieces and certainly did a lot of that, so yeah.
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I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.
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If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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I don't like people cleaning my room.
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I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.
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Going around Rome, you can find beauty because, quite simply, Rome is very beautiful. But the beauty of the people is sometimes harder to discover.
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I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
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In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
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Some people think the world will end in 2012. I think we've got until 2014. I'm an optimist.
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I think the rigors of a TV schedule are brutal and 'Six Feet Under' wasn't a network schedule. We did 13 shows, we didn't do 22. I don't know how people do that. I really don't. I mean the shows are shorter, but wow, it's quite a discipline.
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I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.
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I have very, very few friends. I live in a very tight circle and emotionally I'm probably not as generous as I once was. In an average week I probably meet 150 new people and that's uncomfortable sometimes.
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Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it wasn't just in my family. Sometimes, you'd see, you know, Mom fighting with one of her boyfriends. But a lot of times, you'd see people exploding on each other in a local restaurant or on the street.
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The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.
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So many people trip in front of them because they're looking over there or up ahead.
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TV chefs are not responsible for people's consumption of fibre; this is not our job.
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I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.
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Twitter's a great way to tell people across the world what I care about and, hopefully, motivate them to join me in furthering my causes.
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My concept of hitting the ground running and being an effective legislator is to focus on my district and having really good constituent work.
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When you remain angry with another person, you give away your emotional control to that person each time you think of him or here. You allow him or her to control your emotions at long distance. By not forgiving, you allow that person to run your emotional life, exactly as if he or she were right there with you and the situation was occurring all over again.
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I want people to think about the connection between mothers and daughters. I like the idea of continuity of life and generations.
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New York is hard for me. I grew up in Texas. I can't do without my car, and you can't have a car in New York.
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There's room for everybody to have success, but the moment I start slacking is the moment people will forget about me.
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And also, I'm most comfortable with like two people just sitting and talking about their feeling, you know, in a room with like two cameras and that's it. And I wanted to do something where there was like action and running and you know crowd scenes and big set pieces and certainly did a lot of that, so yeah.
