William Monahan Quotes
I always write as I like to write, and I've been thinking about it because I honestly didn't realize how different my stuff is, until I started looking at other people's scripts as a producer.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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What So Not used to be a lot more dance-y, and now it's becoming a lot more melodic. Flume has always had that melodic thing, but it's starting to become a bit heavier, so it's just difficult to navigate between the two.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
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My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.
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When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.
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We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.
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I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for you, and disregard everything else about their background.
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People who know me know that there's a light-hearted side, humour... But you could easily say I am cheeky.
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I've played sports and been active my whole life.
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Mike Judge usually receives underwhelming acclaim for his movies when they come out; it takes a while for people to catch up.
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Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter - and the Bird is on the Wing.
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I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent.
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You have to think anyway, so why not think big?
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People need to understand: Businesses are going to make mistakes. They shouldn't be shot and hung every time.
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I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual.
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People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.
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I have a very large forehead. I have a pronounced skull. Maybe producers think that there is a lot going on up in there.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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Love of, and respect for, the humble routine of everyday life and its creatures was the only moral commandment which carried conviction when I was a child.
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Life is an energy field, a bunch of molecules. And these particular molecules formed to make these four guys, who then formed into this band called the Beatles and did all that work. I have to think that was something metaphysical. Something alchemic. Something that must be thought of as magic.
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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
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I always write as I like to write, and I've been thinking about it because I honestly didn't realize how different my stuff is, until I started looking at other people's scripts as a producer.
