Alan Bean Quotes
Apollo is the greatest adventure of all humankind, and it needs to be recorded in every way possible for future generations in books, in movies and on television. … I’m an artist. That’s the way I care about things. Maybe 200 years from now, someone will say, 'I’m glad he did that.'
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.
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My mum wants me to get married - and have children, of course. She's met Gaga; we've been dating a while. We're in a committed relationship, and I'm really happy in my relationship. I'm a very lucky guy. As far as having more of a domestic life and settling down into my relationship, we have to see what happens.
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
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I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.
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I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
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I am a person of faith, so I come from a community that's involved in 360,000 churches across the country, that is an institution that could, in a relatively short period of time, provide hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of positive male role models.
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Ethical fashion is the future of fashion. Gucci's decision to ban fur is a smart step in the right direction - for the environment, for animal rights, and for its massive base of young brand fans who will soon represent the largest consumer base in history.
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My contract is just for this year, but I have an option for next year. It is not signed at this moment, but I am only concentrating on this year. I don't know exactly what I will do in the future.
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Apollo is the greatest adventure of all humankind, and it needs to be recorded in every way possible for future generations in books, in movies and on television. … I’m an artist. That’s the way I care about things. Maybe 200 years from now, someone will say, 'I’m glad he did that.'
