Andrew Haigh Quotes
My films are very everyday, and people don't always want to go to the cinema to see ordinary lives. They want to see something a bit more extraordinary. I get that desire, but it's not the kind of film I want to make.
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I'm not saving lives.
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I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.
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There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
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If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.
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I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
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TV and films are same for me. I took a decision to be an actor, and I am an actor. I never decided to be TV actor or film actor.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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I'm basically a know-it-all, and I'm writing a book about it. I want it to be called 'Danson on Water' and have me on the cover in this Christlike pose, standing on the water.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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I may look like a laid-back Hawaiian, but I'm 240 pounds, and when I'm walking around that kitchen, you don't want to get in my way.
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I want to just be what kids believe in.
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I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.
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I want to do a make-up line for men.
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If I have something inside me that I want to get out, I'll just beat it out on the banjo right then and there.
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I like the guys who wrote their own stuff and were able to perform it, like Seth Rogen. He popped off so young. When he did 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin,' and he was a co-producer on the movie, I was like, 'Oh my God: that's exactly what I want to do.'
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I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.
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The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.
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I'm always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.
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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
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The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.
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Competition is the most promising means to achieve and secure prosperity. It alone enables people in their role of consumer to gain from economic progress. It ensures that all advantages which result from higher productivity may eventually be enjoyed.
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We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst.
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I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.
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My films are very everyday, and people don't always want to go to the cinema to see ordinary lives. They want to see something a bit more extraordinary. I get that desire, but it's not the kind of film I want to make.
