Cary Fukunaga (Cary Joji Fukunaga) Quotes
I think that one of the most exciting things about making films is the sort of reaching out to the world. It's as an ambassador. You realize the more you travel that you are a cultural ambassador for your own country. You never become more patriotic than you do living abroad.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
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People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
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Dolphins games always have been among the most popular NFL telecasts in England.
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The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.
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Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them.
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If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.
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I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.
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I have a problem with the way the House is run. I believe that a few people at the top of a pyramid of power have controlled this place for a long time.
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I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show 'Portlandia.' My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the culture of organic, chemical-free parenting, but we're often participants.
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The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.
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It has never been man’s gift to make wildernesses. But he can make deserts, and has.
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When you don't see Jesus for exactly what he was, you miss the whole point of the Jesus Prayer. If you don't understand Jesus, you can't understand his prayer - you don't get the prayer at all, you just get some kind of organized cant. Jesus was a supreme adept, by God, on a terribly important mission.
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Let's make sure we're doing what we can in our own backyard to gain our energy independence and to create American jobs with American energy.
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Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I am not a party candidate, and if elected cannot be President of a party, but the President of the whole people.
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You know you're on stage being the life of the party and trying to get laughs, and then, in a lot of ways, you don't have anything to give once you give it to the people.
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I think that one of the most exciting things about making films is the sort of reaching out to the world. It's as an ambassador. You realize the more you travel that you are a cultural ambassador for your own country. You never become more patriotic than you do living abroad.
