Tom Green (Michael Thomas Green) Quotes
I always try to approach things from the point of authenticity. I've done that for my short films, working with non-actors from the real environments where you go exploring and placing them into the cast alongside professional actors.
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The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.
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In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.
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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.
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Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.
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If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.
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The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
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Anyone who is afraid to lose isn't ready to win.
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In the end, I was doing night shoots on 'Gilmore Girls' and then wrapping and going straight from 'Gilmore Girls' to 'Roadies.'
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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It's like 60 Minutes on acid.
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'I know it's easy to imagine but its easier to just 'do'If you can't 'do' what you imaginethen what is imagination to you?'
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Fox was interested in a different title to 'Independence Day.'
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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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A bunch of chairs lined up in front of a podium equals school.
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I'm smart enough to know, 'Don't try and make any headlines.'
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Hildegard von Bingen conveys spiritual ecstasy, if we're talking of Western music. What bothers me about Western music is that it doesn't have an esoteric dimension in the way the music of the East has, whether it be Byzantine chant, the music of the Sufis, or Hindu music.
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Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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Style is a big part of my life. I used to work in retail before I was an artist; a lot of people didn't know that. I was so good at selling clothes and shoes, and just the lifestyle, that I could tell what size someone was wearing just by looking at them.
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I always try to approach things from the point of authenticity. I've done that for my short films, working with non-actors from the real environments where you go exploring and placing them into the cast alongside professional actors.
