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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But the audience is right. They're always, always right. You hear directors complain that the advertising was lousy, the distribution is no good, the date was wrong to open the film. I don't believe that. The audience is never wrong. Never.
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My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
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I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him.
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The family unit is fundamental for the educational process and for the development both of individuals and states; hence there is a need for policies which promote the family and aid social cohesion and dialogue.
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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.
