Stephen Gaghan Quotes

The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.

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• The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Important
  • Women
  • Money

• There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Great
  • Never
  • Misunderstanding

• We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.

  

  T-Pain
  • Learn
  • Surroundings
  • Adjust

• Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Society
  • Fall
  • Crime

• Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Past
  • Grief
  • Loss

• No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

  

  Dan Simmons
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  • Write
  • Terrified

• There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Blame

• It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Beach

• I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Heart
  • Day
  • Spiritual

• The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Now
  • Destroy
  • Become

• All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Never
  • Silent
  • Tyranny

• I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Myself
  • Rock
  • Competition

• I do not seek. I find.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Find
  • Seek
  • Brainy

• When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Good
  • Something

• Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

  

  Edmund Leach
  • Men
  • Food
  • Cook

• But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Earth
  • Down
  • Window

• What separates sports from entrepreneurism, however, is that in business we constantly have to overcome undefined and unpredictable challenges. Athletes train for specific events and conditions, whereas entrepreneurs generally have little idea what they will encounter along the way.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Business
  • Sports
  • Challenges

• Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.

  

  Haim Ginott
  • U.S.
  • Within
  • Insults

• You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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  • Wanted
  • Policy

• I'm a piece of work, man. I will do what I want, at all times, always. Nobody's going to persuade me one way or another. I can't be persuaded. I take criticism, I listen, I analyze, but at the end of the day, I make the decisions. Because that's the way I started, and that's the way I'm going to finish.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Work
  • Man
  • Day

• On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.

  

  Flume
  • Up
  • Character
  • Stage

• Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of, while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Values
  • Remains
  • Ghost

• The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.

  

  Stephen Gaghan
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  • Development
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