Cary Fukunaga (Cary Joji Fukunaga) Quotes
I've been wanting to make a movie about the war in Sierra Leone, specifically, for more than 15 years.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
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I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.
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I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
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That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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I feel like if we can use the combination of basically data-driven hunches and bet on really first-class talent to deliver the shows, that I think we could do as well as the networks do, who basically have a 75 to 80 percent failure rate for new shows anyway - even after all that development and pilot work.
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A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.
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I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
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Junk DNA - or, as scientists call it nowadays, noncoding DNA - remains a mystery: No one knows how much of it is essential for life.
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The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.
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When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.
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There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.
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The basis on which the Good Friday agreement was constructed was in addressing those problems in the history of Northern Ireland, the social and constitutional problems as well as the military problems that have been unaddressed for centuries.
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People like to make fun of the fans who camp out but people have renaissance fairs; people do Civil War re-enactments; people do what they like. I'm tired of hearing people rage on the fans. If you don't like 'Twilight,' don't buy a ticket.
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Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war.
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My goal with this music is that people feel filled up by it. I hope they have a little bit more hope in their tank when they finish listening to it.
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I've been wanting to make a movie about the war in Sierra Leone, specifically, for more than 15 years.
