Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes
Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
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I choose to express myself.
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At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards.
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The Heartland Institute, which people mostly only know in terms of the fact that it hosts these annual conferences of climate change skeptics or deniers, it's important to know that the Heartland Institute is first and foremost a free market think tank. It's not a scientific organization.
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I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.
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Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.
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President Trump is quick to attack American students, immigrants, women, the LGBT community, journalists, and our international allies but he is either too weak or too ignorant to stand up to white supremacists and others who spew hatred.
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The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.
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I want to make a poem of my life.
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A thermonuclear war cannot be considered a continuation of politics by other means (according to the formula of Clausewitz). It would be a means of universal suicide.
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What we in industry learned in dealing with people is that people do not work just for money and that if you are trying to motivate, money is not the most effective tool.
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With Instagram, you're captioning a moment. Twitter is the caption without the image. Even if it's there, the words come first.
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I think American fans, they know more college guys than guys overseas.
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Canada is a really big melting pot of cultures, so we ended up with a giant mosaic of different music.
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As far as my street cred goes, I'll always have that, because I always hang with the kids. I'll jump right off the stage and buy them a beer. I'll be a star on stage, but I'll always hang with the kids.
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I don't use e-mail or u-mail or whatever it's called.
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As a journalist, I have wanted very much to find a way to write about the music industry, and it's been frustrating to me that that's never worked out.
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Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions.
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It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society
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Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society.
