Nicholas Stoller Quotes
I feel very creatively satisfied and lucky that I get to write for other people, but for something I direct, it has to be something I completely understand every facet of.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.
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I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
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You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
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As U.S. citizens, Puerto Rico has paid their part.
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What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?
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And we did it because it's time for City Hall to stop looking out for City Hall and start looking out for the people like you and me who are footing the bill.
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I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room.
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Google is really committed to improving everything. So it has been really fun to participate in all of their different moonshots.
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Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violence, and rock music for making kids take drugs and kill themselves. These things should be the least of our worries. The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no 'normal,' because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously.
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Empathy isn't as hard as it sounds because people have a lot of the same feelings. And it helps to understand other people because then you can actually care about them sometimes. And help them. And have a friend.
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I feel very creatively satisfied and lucky that I get to write for other people, but for something I direct, it has to be something I completely understand every facet of.
