Constantine Manos Quotes
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Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.
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You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.
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I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.
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Things happen. And good things happen, and bad things happen. And I'm a person - I'm a believer that everything happens for a reason.
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Most of all, I want to thank you for all the generous advance coverage you've given me in anticipation of a successful career. When I actually do something, we'll let you know.
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Celebrate my escape, sold the Glock, bought some weight. Laid back, I got some money to make. Motherfucker!
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Particle physicists may freeze a second, open it up, and explore its dappled contents like surgeons pawing through an abdomen, but in real life, when events occur within thousandths of a second, our minds cannot distinguish past from future.
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I work out all the time, but because it's good for my mental state.
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It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.
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The beauty of having a producer is that you have someone who says, You're finished.
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Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.
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Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old.
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These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.
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Writing books takes a long time, and one thing a writer must do is learn to live with his or her project.
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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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My first show, in England, was called 'Soldier, Soldier.'
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When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.
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A bank in Washington was robbed by two men in George W. Bush masks. Luckily, right afterwards two guys in President Obama masks came and bailed the bank out, so everything is fine.
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I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.
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When I was studying photography, I became interested in conflict photojournalism, and that got me interested in lighting. Then I realized there was this amazing thing called cinematography where you could kind of tell more complete stories photographing for film. So I ended up going to AFI grad school for that.
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Grain is the brush stroke of photography.
