Nicholas Ozeki Quotes
Making a film is like raising a child. You have to be there every step of the way, guide it, provide for it, and finally let it go into the real world and hope you have done a good job. If you don't absolutely love your film then you will loss interest in it and the movie will suffer.
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.
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All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.
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It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
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I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.
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I remember when 'The Right Stuff' opened in Hollywood. I got dressed that morning and drove my car down to the theatre that it was playing on, thinking that there would be mobs of people outside. When I looked, there was nobody there.
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I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
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My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.
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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
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True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
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I've been a video game guy since I was eight years old and got my first Nintendo. I've been addicted to video games ever since.
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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
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Hatred is blind, as well as love.
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When the Americans see someone like Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg, who made billions thanks to their talent and determination, the first thing they say to themselves is, 'I want to be like him.' This, in many ways, is the engine that drives Western society: The desire to make it like the winners.
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I can't stand being around anal people, especially anal people with big egos.
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Big, obedient, patient Clydesdales. I loved them.
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Internal security implies also an external dimension, a defence capacity.
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Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.
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You should always make it like it's your last film. That's my personal belief. Every filmmaker is going to have another belief... That's the only way I know to try to make a film that might be good. You got to take it real seriously like it's your last thing.
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Making a film is like raising a child. You have to be there every step of the way, guide it, provide for it, and finally let it go into the real world and hope you have done a good job. If you don't absolutely love your film then you will loss interest in it and the movie will suffer.
