William Blum Quotes
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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We each take up one virtual space per title... Virtual shelf life is forever. In a bookstore, you have anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to sell your title, and then it gets returned. This is a big waste of money, and no incentive at all for the bookseller to move the book.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
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I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.
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The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.
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I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
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For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the difference between the two might lead us to think, but that it has the power and privilege of rising from that level to a height utterly far from mediocrity: in other words that its greatness is that it can be so great.
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If love is blind, patriotism has lost all five senses.
