R. J. Cutler Quotes
I'm big into not drawing conclusions for people. I think that's what makes for the most exciting, compelling films. I get bored when the politics of the filmmaker are the subject of the film that I see.
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov -
An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam - in my steam shower. I find it's very healing, more than just your typical 'tea and honey.'
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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It was such a challenge to do. I had to deliver the city of New York!
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If I could capture the rage of todays youth and bottle it, crush the glass from my bare hands and swallow it. then spit it back in the faces, of you racists and hypocrites who thinks the same shit, but don't say shit.
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Everyone wonders why I talk junk, but I was doomed from the beginning.
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It's exciting to be with really, really good people. Some people make you feel like you've got to up your game. Working with good people is always good.
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I'm big into not drawing conclusions for people. I think that's what makes for the most exciting, compelling films. I get bored when the politics of the filmmaker are the subject of the film that I see.
