Richard Linklater Quotes
I didn't have any set idea of what kind of filmmaker I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to tell stories that meant something to me, but I never said I was going to be the weird, avant-garde guy.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.
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No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, which I don't think is productive. I won't go outside for days.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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In the U.S., we didn't have scale, and without scale, it's difficult to operate.
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I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't.
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Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think.
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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
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Like most people, I shrink from exposing my innermost secrets and my most private and intimate actions.
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Entitled people drive me insane. The world owes you nothing! Get over it!
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I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
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I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come.
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Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.
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Politicisation of terrorism for narrow gains is not good for society in general and the country in particular.
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I'm always criticised by other Somalis and Muslims for what I'm doing as a model and married to a white man and all that.
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Basically, I am a night owl. My wife is an early bird, so she goes to bed around 9:30, and my kids are in bed about 8. So, if I am home, I will usually start writing about 9:30 and go till about 12:30 or 1:30, depending on what my energy level is.
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When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no matter how brilliant you may think you are.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.
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One reason to come to Port Elizabeth was because it was nice to come to a so-called quieter place. To prepare at our own pace without people looking over our shoulder and instead to build intensity from within our own camp.
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I didn't have any set idea of what kind of filmmaker I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to tell stories that meant something to me, but I never said I was going to be the weird, avant-garde guy.
