Albert Einstein Quotes
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.
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No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.
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Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.
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I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.
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Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
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It doesn't hurt me on a personal level, but it hurts me on a larger level of like, why are people so stupid? Why do we have to go through these unnecessary exercises. Fight crime, don't fight me. If you really want to make a difference don't fight me or Fugazi.
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It's fun conjuring what people will be wearing in the future. We exist in this world today, and yet there are people walking around who still look like they're in the '60s.
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The facts of life are very stubborn things.
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I think that you love who you love, and there are people who you love that people aren't going to understand why, and that sort of doesn't really matter.
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Creativity is the residue of time wasted.
