Terrence Malick (Terrence Frederick Malick) Quotes
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I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
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Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city's West Side.
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The Dalai Lama is just a temporal leader of Tibet.
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It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that comes to me, if I'm writing the book in English, in French. It's not always easy to deal with. Sometimes even during an interview somebody can ask me a question in English that I want to answer in French and vice versa – that's the story of my life!
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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
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I think we do want a front-runner from the Republican Party who can win the general election.
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If people believe in your material, they will do whatever it takes to get it done. Even if they don't, but you make it as awesome an experience as possible, they will help you reach your goals.
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He asked her twice to come along;They said good-bye at the break of dawn.'Cause you can't hold back the wind,If it's meant to be again,Then someday he'll find his way back to her arms.
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Put your shoulder to the wheel.
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I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.
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When you've already experienced great challenges in your career, it gives minor setbacks a different perspective.
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When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth.
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I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much.
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I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.
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I like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, it's meaningful, and I like the song. It's a love song - kind of - but it's kind of depressing and dark.
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I tend to write it and then let go emotionally.
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The banks refused to deal with us, and they are still refusing, because of American gang-like actions.
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I don't know what we did without Velcro in the American theater. It's a miracle substance! People had long intermissions, probably.
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I don't really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around "forever" - but in a relatively niche way, like jazz and poetry, although probably more widely consumed than jazz and poetry since it's fundamentally a narrative form. And I think that's important and places like Word Riot and 'The New York Tyrant' and 'n+1' will be responsible for keeping it alive.
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Corporations don't have children. They don't have feelings or souls. They don't depend on uncontaminated water, clean air, or healthy food to survive. They are beholden to one thing - the bottom line.
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You can't run from feelings, Charity. You have to face them. Otherwise your future will look just like your past.
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Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.
