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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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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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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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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I think we all want to be remembered for what we did.
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I don't want to have so many exes.
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I think there's this essential human desire to have a unified field theory. Everyone is like, 'I want to unlock the single secret to 'Lost.' There isn't any one secret. There is not a unified field theory for 'Lost,' nor do we think there should be, because philosophically, we don't buy into that as a conceit.
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I'd rather be involved and somebody say, 'Hey, coach, here's what I need you to do. Go down to the D-League and work with guys'... I want the D-League coach to learn how to be a head coach.
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My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.
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Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.
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I was taught to think outside the box. Before my grandfather was one of the original Mad Men, he and a group of other Air Force Intelligence officers formalized brainstorming as a problem solving technique. He taught the concept that creativity can be taught at Buffalo University. My dad invented toys. My mom was a photographer.
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The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.
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It is essential that we understand people for who they are as individuals and not the public perception of them or their family and past.
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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.
