David Michod Quotes
The first time when you can really get a sense of what the movie is going to look and feel like is when you're in a casting room and seeing it.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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In Mexico, audiences want to see a big discussion around a film - what we expect from Hollywood films worldwide is more of an entertaining show. 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' was a road movie and comedy, but it had a very strong political connotation that sparked a discussion in Mexico that is still going on.
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I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.
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I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me – and it was such a backhanded compliment – they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'
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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.
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My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly.
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It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson.
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I've gone skydiving twice. I was terrified about doing it, but I wanted to overcome that. The first time, I did it with my parents and I remember that they had already both jumped out, and suddenly it was my turn. And I thought, 'Well, I don't want to be an orphan,' so I guess I have no choice, and I jumped out of the plane.
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God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said.
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The Internet is, among other things, a massive, chaotic marketplace. Too much information, it turns out, is a lot like no information.
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I think folks who are resistant to engaging in art become less so once they encounter art that really reflects them.
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What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?
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Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.
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We are all terminal.
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The first time when you can really get a sense of what the movie is going to look and feel like is when you're in a casting room and seeing it.
