Darren Lynn Bousman Quotes
I want to do things that are very outside of the box, and I want to do movies that no one else can do. If someone else can make the movie that I'm making, then I shouldn't do it.
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
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Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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People believe what they want to believe.
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If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
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I have a tweet that said, 'I want to be a Calvin Klein model,' and that was in 2011. And then I modeled for Calvin Klein. And then I had a tweet like, 'I wonder what it's like to be in front of thousands of fans,' and I've been in front of thousands of fans.
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If you are a researcher and want to publish a paper, if you are applying for money either from a private or public foundation, you have to have a DSM code.
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If you want to start reading Swedish crime fiction, you have to start with Sjowall and Wahloo.
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I want to just be what kids believe in.
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We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.
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Immigration is a volatile issue, but we're in the middle of it now, and probably the worst thing to do is to not do anything. Everybody recognizes the current system is not working the way we want it to work. It has huge flaws to it; need to do something.
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I want to fuse the abrasive and the beautiful.
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The whole European Federal plan is ridiculous. We are patriotic. The single currency is an outrage. We want the Queen's head - or the King's head, if we have a king - on our own coins.
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I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I'm a competitor.
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I did not want to get involved with a rock star. No way. It is not a sane thing to do.
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The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
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In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely.
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Women have been such an important part of my life. I try, every day, to be a better father to my daughters and a better husband.
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Oh, people will think what they think!...Don't ever choose the people who don't matter over the ones who do.
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I want to do things that are very outside of the box, and I want to do movies that no one else can do. If someone else can make the movie that I'm making, then I shouldn't do it.
