Andrew Haigh Quotes
I'm interested in how we understand ourselves in our relatioships and how we define ourselves.
Quotes to Explore
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
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I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
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I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.
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Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
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If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. It shouldn't change you. If you're a jerk, you just get to be a bigger jerk. What fame does is magnify who you are and puts that on a platter for the whole world to see.
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It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.
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There's only one of us here: What we give to others, we give to ourselves. What we withhold from others, we withhold from ourselves. In any moment, when we choose fear instead of love, we deny ourselves the experience of Paradise.
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Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
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In short, you can't let the deadline define the mission. The mission has to define the duration.
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It is not the events in our life that define our character, but how we deal with them.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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That's very hard to define. I guess, commitment. I don't believe in love at first sight. I'm in love with my wife, but I don't always feel the same level of love. Your emotions go up and down. The strongest love is between family members, and ultimately, it boils down to commitment.
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It saddens me how much fear we've instilled in ourselves.
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I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past.
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When we see God through a fear-based lens, we end up with an inaccurate view of ourselves.
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The danger with playing a part that defines you is that it swallows up everything else.
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I used to get a lot of rubber ducks on my birthdays as presents because, you know, I make rubber ducks. But then I get the ugliest ones with a neck, ugly colors, and devil ears. I don't like those.
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Quite often on a movie like Total Recall you have this training period of two or three months where, like on the first 'Underworld' I was doing gymnastics and trampolining and all this stuff which I don't do in the movie necessarily, but mentally it helps. You come home and you go: 'Well, I've done all that. I must be an action star now!' So it helps you focus a little bit and gets you fit.
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Getting movies developed doesn't do me any good as a producer. It only does me good to get movies made.
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I'm interested in how we understand ourselves in our relatioships and how we define ourselves.
