Nathan Sawaya Quotes
I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
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Fashion and music have always played off each other and certainly do for me; I love both so much. But there are definitely those moments when you're playing the right song at the right time in the right place, and it feels like the best job in the world.
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Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.
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You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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I want to see what I look like when I'm old - I'm curious where that's going to take me.
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I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
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Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
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Being on your own sometimes is appealing.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
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Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.
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The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional wisdom is that this is because of sexually explicit passages (and there certainly are those). I have always thought that what the critics hated and feared about Joyce is his cry for human freedom.
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I don't really think about doing something kind, I think there's just a way to conduct your daily life with compassion to other people.
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When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.
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I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.
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I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
