Niels Arden Oplev Quotes
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.
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If I am elected president, every militant on the face of the planet will know, if you go and join ISIS, if you wage jihad on the United States of America, if you attempt to murder innocent Americans you are signing your death warrant.
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It's funny how things change slowly, until the day we realize they've changed completely.
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These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever.
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I am a great movie buff, and I devour films regularly.
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There can be no assumption that today's majority is 'right' and the Amish and others like them are 'wrong.' A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.
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I started to see that my concept of spirituality was totally wrong.
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Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily happiness. But I think self-satisfaction is maybe the enemy. It's kind of better to think, "Tomorrow night I'm gonna sing it better." There is this forward effort. It feels to me right, it feels human.
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Men expect too much, do too little.
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If you're a professional, you'll make it work. You can be like, 'I'm not going to do that, I'm going to do it where I'm satisfied.' But I'm very comfortable being uncomfortable so I just go for it.
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O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.
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Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies.
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I can't do a role or character unless I have lived that character. For me, the best teacher is life.
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I'm a follower of the Christ path, and that opens a huge discussion about what we even mean by words like "Christian."
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Today, in good times and bad, everyone must be a turnaround manager.
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Consciously picking the right script after a long period of wait helped me grab a perfect film in the rom-com genre.
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What makes the Stones' arrogance so divine is that we all believe that long ago and far away they weren't rich and famous but poor and struggling, just like us.
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When you're C.E.O., you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job. And today, they are reunited.
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Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.
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When you cast, you can't cast only visually; you have to cast emotionally, too.
