Andrew Niccol Quotes
You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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The heart of Univision – and what we do – is here in Miami.
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I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.
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Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
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In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.
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I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.
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I have always been involved in my school's music program.
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I focus a little more on pacing when I write books in the young adult category, and of course there's the great American fear of anything sexual, so that's somewhat backed off in YA.
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It's interesting to play a real-life person who has already been a character on 'Saturday Night Live.'
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I believe our Heavenly Father’s everlasting purpose for His children is generally achieved by the small and simple things we do for one another. At the heart of the English word ‘atonement’ is the word ‘one.’ If all mankind understood this, there would never be anyone with whom we would not be concerned, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, or social or economic standing. We would strive to emulate the Savior and would never be unkind, indifferent, disrespectful, or insensitive to others.
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I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.
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You find your limits by going out and trying. We're just like anybody else in any other job. You just can't work 90 hour weeks. You can't do it. We can't sing seven days a week.
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I see artists as the first responders. And when the proverbial crap hits the fan, we are there to be of service, to tell the story, to bring a balm, to soothe, to provide catharsis. You know, not to make our work any more important or less important, but just that there is a great importance to it.
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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it.
