John Whitney "Whit" Stillman (Whit Stillman) Quotes
I like to allow a story to arise as I'm writing scripts. I find it horrible when I try to think of something for the plot without really being on the ground and seeing where it goes.
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For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.
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I have always believed that what goes around comes around.
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I love seeing when actors go from one genre to the next because I feel like most of them can pull it off.
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The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.
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I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing you have 18 frames a second you can take out one or two and I couldn't tell.
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Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.
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Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
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I hear that Donald Trump is watching the Olympics tonight. He's seeing how high the Mexican pole vaulters go.
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If I cannot add to my own low level of understanding, I could ill afford to try to raise that of others, seeing that it belongs to our Creator and Lord to give much or little.
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I don't like seeing myself on television. I don't like it.
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I'd read a lot of scripts, and I remember reading 'Orange Is the New Black,' and it was at the head of the pack. I remember thinking, 'Wow, that is really good. I would love to be a part of that.'
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I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.
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I love seeing the fans of the music that I make.
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There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to the original sin of the invasion of Iraq.
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An NBA game in L.A., the Lakers - I'm a Clipper fan - it's to be seen as much as seeing the game.
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I never get used to going out and seeing 20, 30,000 people that are there to see us play. It's kind of surreal.
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People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.
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We are seeing the cells of plants and animals more and more clearly as chemical factories, where the various products are manufactured in separate workshops.
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I have to try to see where seeing is no longer possible, where visibility is gone.
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As children, we all hold on to the myth of omnipotence. Comics are successful because kids identify with superheroes. They'll read a book or watch a TV programme and say, 'I'm that guy.' And that guy is always the one in control.
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The people of Maine were tired of being in debt and tired of being overtaxed.
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Life... by Marshall Mathers... What is life ? Life is like a big obstacle put in front of your optical to slow you down... And everytime you think you gotten past it It's gonna come back around and tackle you to the damn ground
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If I were to listen to people all the time when they say, 'Hey, this is a really high challenge, this is a high climb, the bar is pretty steep,' then I wouldn't have gone to the academy. I wouldn't have become an aircraft carrier pilot. I wouldn't have become a Navy SEAL for sure. And I probably wouldn't have applied to Harvard.
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I like to allow a story to arise as I'm writing scripts. I find it horrible when I try to think of something for the plot without really being on the ground and seeing where it goes.
