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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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 asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack.
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.
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I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.
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Every album I've done pretty much has been not in a pleasant, quote-unquote, environment - it's freezing cold, or it was somebody's house with not-that-great equipment. It's always something that spurs on to get the job done.
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I enjoy just showing people other sides of me, especially everyone always sees me in my helmet and ski suit. It's nice to just show everyone me, just me in my everyday clothes or just me in high heels or just me not in my ski gear, basically.
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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.
