Nicolas Cowan Quotes
I think about it all the time. I love filmmaking. Whether I'd be in front of the camera or behind the camera, I just love that world.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Everyone learns from their experiences.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is that no one wants to hear that it isn't for them. As soon as they read it, they want it to be theirs.
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.
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I admire a lot of actors; I think a lot of them have so much talent.
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I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.
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I don't project no image. I just act like myself. I write about how I feel, the emotional stage I'm in at the time. So I write from the heart. I never write from my mind. My brain, I mean.
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Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
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Now when we talk of brotherhood of men, we stop there and feel that all other life is there for man to exploit for his own purposes. But Hinduism excludes all exploitation.
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The Olympics was always my be-all and end-all, so when I won, it was the best feeling in the world. But I didn't realise how much it would affect me mentally. All that pressure. I was only 19; I still didn't know everything about taekwondo, I wasn't experienced. I just did amazing on that day and won.
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The waves travel with the velocity of light and slightly squeeze and stretch space transverse to the direction of their motion. The first waves we measured came from the collision of two black holes each about 30 times the mass of our sun.
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Getting up at four in the morning to tend the farm while the world is quiet - feeding animals, mucking stalls, gathering eggs, filling water troughs, checking fences, letting animals out into the field - is a high point to my day.
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As a director, when you embrace a project, you try to understand as much as you can about its world, and you do that by embracing and engaging with people who are in that world. Then it's down to your best instincts, which is what most directing is about anyway.
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I think about it all the time. I love filmmaking. Whether I'd be in front of the camera or behind the camera, I just love that world.
