Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes
I certainly believe that creativity must be an experience. If I'm to steal time away from people, we should give them something to react to.
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
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My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
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Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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My literary success meant nothing to me.
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It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.
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'HIM' is much more of a British, coming-of-age series, while 'Stranger Things' is very obviously a sci-fi drama.
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The 'Kickin' It' set is so much fun, I find myself in a new adventure every week. I work with an amazing cast and crew.
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At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.
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I don't let many things that are superficial keep me in a box.
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Fresh sneakers are important on a man. It's like a new pair of boxers or a new pair of socks.
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My experience of being on the public platform got more multi-faceted, multi-dimensional, and my place in the public eye, I think, has always been a little more than just what is going on in that time in my life.
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Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
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We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world, peopled by bright-eyed attractive men, women, children... Where nobody dies... In my worlds people died. And I thought that was honest. I thought I was being honest.
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I certainly believe that creativity must be an experience. If I'm to steal time away from people, we should give them something to react to.
