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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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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It's probably easier and cheaper to counterfeit hundred-dollar bills than it is to counterfeit Bitcoin.
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Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.
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Lucy swayed in shock. A gust of wind moaned through the conservatory and blew out all but one of her candles. Simon must have done this. He’d destroyed his fairyland conservatory. Why? She sank to her knees, huddled on the cold floor, her one remaining flame cradled in her numb palms. She’d seen how tenderly Simon had cared for his plants. Remembered the look of pride when she’d first discovered the dome and fountain. For him to have smashed all this . . . He must have lost hope. All hope.
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It is possible for you to get a grip on the thing that used to have a grip on you. And instead of it controlling you - you are now controlling it.
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I'm a mix of a 14-year-old high schooler and a 60-year-old guy. It can never fall into the 30s or the 40s. It has to be 100 percent 60 or 100 percent 14, no in between.
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Look good, feel good, play good.
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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.
