Erik Spoelstra Quotes
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
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We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
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What I loved about 'Goodfellas' is that it's a film about bad behavior - but told with great energy and without judgment - but it doesn't actually shy away from the consequences of that behavior in the characters' lives, which I think is similar in 'Keep the Lights On.'
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You have to follow and honor that inner voice. I always encouraged the girls to do the same.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.
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Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.
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A single woman who supports herself is called a career woman, while a single man who supports himself is called a playboy…Ironically, a woman who commits and becomes financially dependent is considered more mature than a man who does not commit but is financially independent.
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How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world! How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves! ... You can always - always - give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness!
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Discomfort is the way to go if you want to make something you feel is worthwhile.
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Who wouldn't want to date Salman?
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Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.
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I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.
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One of the hardest things we must sometimes do is to be present to another person's pain without trying to fix it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person’s mystery and misery.
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The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa.
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Der Krieg ist eine bloße Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln
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Even in developing markets, we're seeing the growth of digital communication is proceeding at a very rapid pace.
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You have to stick to your goals of progress.
