Lawrence Bender Quotes
Honestly, when I had the idea to make 'An Inconvenient Truth,' and I was going out and raising the money, and I said, 'I want to make a movie about Al Gore's slide show, will you give me a million dollars?' People thought I was insane, looked at me cross-eyed.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.
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As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
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I want to spend as much time as I can with my family, yet I'm aware of having to bring home the bacon.
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When something terrible happens, how you react determines who you are from then on.
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Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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You'll never see me working five days a week again.
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Nobody can illuminate our greatest hopes, soothe our deepest fears, and put us on the musical high road like Stevie Wonder.
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Honestly, when I had the idea to make 'An Inconvenient Truth,' and I was going out and raising the money, and I said, 'I want to make a movie about Al Gore's slide show, will you give me a million dollars?' People thought I was insane, looked at me cross-eyed.
