Nicholas Stoller Quotes
All of the things I've directed, I'm really emotionally close to. That's why I choose to direct them and spend years on them.
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I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
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I have a physical background. It's not like I'm a kung fu master, but my real training was dance school, and through that, I move to this thing called Capruera that I used in 'Ocean's 12.' I can pretend that I can do a lot of things, but then, I don't really master anything.
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I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
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I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.
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The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.
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Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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I always thought I should be treated like a star.
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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
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I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I'm stronger.
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If people still trust me with a funny line, then that is fine. If that is what gets me work.
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Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
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Sometimes I feel edgy, sometimes I feel like I want to wear a bright, bold beautiful color.
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Somewhere, in some city in America, someone is wearing my clothes, and I'm happy with that.
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In the '80s, I got tired of the rat race. It was a terrible time for music. I wasn't part of that whole MTV craze. I did 'Go Ahead and Rain,' which was Madeleine Stowe's first bit, but felt no connection to it. I went many years where I didn't have to work.
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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
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The E.U. can deliver on its citizens' needs and make its partnerships work only if we all act together - E.U. institutions and national governments, at all levels, united.
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Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.
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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
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All of the things I've directed, I'm really emotionally close to. That's why I choose to direct them and spend years on them.
