Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isn't so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
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Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
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Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you're writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn't work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.
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Whatever limits us we call Fate.
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I am quite a fitness freak. I may not have the time to sleep, but a workout is a must. I have even set up a small personal gym on the sets.
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If a brutal scene is shown for no reason except to shock, then it is bad.
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My zombie films were all sort of satirical, with political messages. So I was doing them inexpensively and quietly off in left field somewhere.
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Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young.
