Rachel Morrison Quotes
So much of 'Mudbound' is about man's relationship to the land and to the elements. It's about the desire for control and how powerless we are against nature. We always knew we would shoot widescreen as a means to isolate a body in the frame and to highlight our own insignificance.
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The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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If somebody wants to go to church because they like the ritual of it and want to sit in silence for a while one time a week, then that's great. If someone wants to go because they believe that God them and Jesus rose after three days, then that's great, too.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
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God's words first... obey God's law first before considering the laws of man.
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As long as a member state is a member state, there are no negotiations bilaterally on any trade agreement with third parties.
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How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?
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I have a friend who says, 'The world doesn't need another angry dwarf!'
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The socialism I believe in is everyone working for each other, everyone having a share of the rewards. It's the way I see football, the way I see life.
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So much of 'Mudbound' is about man's relationship to the land and to the elements. It's about the desire for control and how powerless we are against nature. We always knew we would shoot widescreen as a means to isolate a body in the frame and to highlight our own insignificance.
