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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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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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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County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties.
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The other day, someone called me this generation's Bruce Dern - I'd never thought of that, and frankly, I don't know enough of Bruce Dern's work to comment on it, though he is an incredible actor.
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I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.
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Anyway, he and I worked on the script together, and I must say he was a joy to work with. Very enthusiastic.
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You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it.
