Taika Waititi Quotes
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If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.
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There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
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I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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I have an office full of product from brands trying to be in videos and an inbox full of songs from artists, but at the end of the day if the artist doesn't support the brand or it doesn't make sense for the song, then it will never work. What we do is try to pair them up so that both sides are happy.
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I wanted to go to college and play football.
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It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.
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Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
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In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington DC it just sort of works out that way.
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My secret heroes were Joe Morello, Ray Charles - who is, in my opinion, the most dominant figure in musical history in the 21st century - and Frank Sinatra. Those are my heroes. And as a writer, when Bob Dylan came along, it was a miracle because he gave us all permission to say anything!
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Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray.
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To make filmmaking interesting to me, I want to keep learning things.
