Michelle Monaghan Quotes
I will say that is a quality I love about great directors, which is the ability to give you one word that can inspire you. I appreciate a director with a very good vocabulary. There are so many directors that I have worked with that can give you one word.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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If I get in a dark spot, I'll listen to some Adele and cry about it.
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The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.
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When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an adventure. I like that. I throw myself into the director's arms, into their universe.
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I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we've had to report.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.
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People never believe you.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
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The heart of the gameplay is still about choice and consequence, which is what I've been doing since the '80s.
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I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
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The fact that I've achieved this so soon is just a bonus, I guess. Everything from now on is a bonus for me.
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If you have the support of people with a heart and a brain, then you're good.
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Sometimes I say things that I can't believe came out of my mouth. Or I won't mean something and it will come out completely nonsensical.
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When I say that it's taken us [with Luca Guadagnino ] 11 years to make this film, what I mean is that it was 11 years ago that we started to talk about a kind of cinema that we wanted to make together.
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The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire.
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The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see.
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I'm not a cineaste. I've made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one.
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Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
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I will say that is a quality I love about great directors, which is the ability to give you one word that can inspire you. I appreciate a director with a very good vocabulary. There are so many directors that I have worked with that can give you one word.
