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.
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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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.
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All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.
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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.
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I do not seek. I find.
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When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.
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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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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.
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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.
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Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.
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It's an exciting life. I don't know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors and He closes the doors, and it is always the best for us.
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Living with a stammer is difficult. It's a daily uphill struggle with emotional baggage weighing you down. You can't be the person you want to be.
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I'm real happy. I've been lucky in love, and I've got a wonderful kid now, and things have been going well.
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I look with wonder at that which is before me.
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Ultimately, the idea of acting is to understand the people you're playing, and then where they're coming from is not so mystifying. You've got to detox a bit after, though.
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Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.
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Something may have happened before, and yet this thing that happened just after may be so important that you don't even know about the thing that happened before and when you tell your story to yourself, or to someone else, it's going to be told not on the basis necessarily of the time course, but rather on the basis of how it was valued by you.
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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.
