Richard Linklater Quotes
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have any boyfriends in high school because I was a nerd. I was a geek.
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A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
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I have a cellphone, but I have no Google, I have no gaggle.
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Tempus edax rerum.
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From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.
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Obviously, I'm at the beginning of my career, contrary to what anyone else thinks. I'm 19 years old. In any other country, everywhere else, you're a prospect. And that's what I am right now in Europe. I'm a prospect. I'm not a seasoned veteran.
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Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach test? It's easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don't know what's happening to them?
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It's going to be impossible in the 21st century for anyone to think about anything without a Chinese aspect.
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When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.
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I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade.
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They will accuse me of stealing from my father. They already stand in baited judgement, waiting for my first move, waiting to dump their loads of garbage on me.
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Sometimes I don't want to be in the confines of what a band seems to provide.
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I like doing everything. That's why I came to Pixar, as opposed to Disney or any other studio - it's small. At the time I started, I was, like, the 10th person in the animation group, and we all had to do everything. That's the way I like it, keeping it fresh.
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I stand to learn more working as an actor with really talented people than I do by directing a feature.
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Life is simply a collection of memories, but memories are like star light... They live on Forever.
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Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.
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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
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If something is wrong with anyone, look first to the stomach.
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Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.
