Bill Courtney Quotes
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Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.
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I don't mind not being cool.
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With the word creative we stand under a mystery. And from time to time that mystery, as if it were a sun, sends down upon one head or another, a sudden shaft of light - by grace, one feels, rather than deserving, for it always is something given, free, unsought, unexpected.
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Modernity is the most transient of qualities.
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I feel like I had to learn how to take care of myself and find out what made me happy aside from just making films.
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You were afraid this might be the case. Your dad has blocked the front door with the REFRIGERATOR. Looks like he's taking the grounding seriously this time.
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The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids.
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Carl Rinsch has a good balance between the visual and the drama and action, so I thought if he's going to direct, we can make a new, epic film. My fear was gone when I met him.
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The fatalism of the limits-to-growth alternative is reasonable only if one ignores all the resources beyond our atmosphere, resources thousands of times greater than we could ever obtain from our beleaguered Earth. As expressed very beautifully in the language of House Concurrent Resolution 451, 'This tiny Earth is not humanity's prison, is not a closed and dwindling resource, but is in fact only part of a vast system rich in opportunities...'
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.
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I might have to do the London Marathon. I like crowds, so that is why I like the big marathons.
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In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.
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Never run more than 3 hours straight in training, whether your marathon best is 2:42 or 4:24.
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I have several close friends who have run marathons, a word that is actually derived from two Swahili words: mara, which means 'to die a horrible death', and thon, which means 'for a stupid T-shirt.' Look it up.
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We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has been lost can motivate serious historical inquiry; it can also cast a powerful light on the present.
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Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have.
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In the marathon of life, there is no finish line.
