Richard Linklater Quotes
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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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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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Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have sparked a booming industry of so-called influencers - people with large-scale followings who are paid considerable sums by large companies to tout their products or ideas.
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I think people perceive me completely differently than how I perceive myself. I see myself as a sweet, cosy, motherly type. We all want people to be more glamorous and daring and adventurous than they actually are.
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Our minds are like certain vehicles,--when they have little to carry they make much noise about it, but when heavily loaded they run quietly.
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I have a nostalgia for the years I was growing up and experiencing new things for the first time - so the late '80s and early '90s are always fascinating to me. Those were the times that I was being informed about a lot of my tastes, and so the memories are fused with a lot of emotion.
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Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.
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Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.
