Alan Rudolph Quotes

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

Alan Rudolph

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• When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon - particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn't occurred, we would have been another Detroit.

  

  Ed Koch
  • City
  • Proud
  • Foundation

• The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to have to fight to defend. We have to compete now so productions stay here. We don't want entertainment to be like the steel industry.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Want
  • Fight
  • Canada

• I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Life
  • Good
  • Advice

• I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Think

• I would wake up really early and go into the hotel bathroom, put a towel over the toilet, and put my laptop there. I'd put my headphones on and just write. And so now when I do writing sessions, and I am stuck on a part, or I can't figure out a chorus, I'm just like, 'Give me a second,' and I'll go to that bathroom.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Writing
  • Part
  • Hotel

• The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Life
  • Law
  • Me

• In all seriousness, I'm flattered and humbled to have been asked to reprise my role as Luke in the 'Veronica Mars' movie.

  

  Sam Huntington
  • Movie
  • Mars
  • Seriousness

• I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Up
  • Control
  • Collaboration

• Film is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you're dealing with a lot more characters, a lot more locations, and you're able to rely on things that you just can never do on the stage.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • You
  • Film
  • Just

• We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Good
  • You

• I don't think you can understand Trump's relationship to his voters and how he gets away with what he gets away with, without understanding the pact between a lifestyle brand and its consumer base and how that really transformed the global economy in the 1990s.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Think
  • Relationship
  • Understanding

• He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • War
  • Said
  • Start

• But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • History
  • Individual
  • Changes

• I tend to agree with many aspects of President Obama's policies.

  

  Naoto Kan
  • President
  • Agree
  • Policies

• I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Me
  • Acting
  • Cost

• Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Important
  • Courage
  • Humility

• 'What’s that all about?' Golden said to his wife, a rhetorical question. She looked at him and said nothing, a non-rhetorical answer.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • She
  • Question
  • Wife

• I think both sides China and United States should work hard to build a new type of relationship between big powers. The two sides should cooperate with each other for a win-win result in order to benefit people from the two countries and the world.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• It's good to be happy and tell us how cool your life is and how awesome you are on social media. That's great because it inspires other people to be happy, too. But a lot of times, people are trying to be happy in the wrong ways - with money or with different things that are not true happiness.

  

  Jaden Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I try to just focus on what feels right to me when I am conceiving it, conceptualizing, designing, etc. and then talk it through with the team and listen to what they have to say. This kind of thing is a team effort, and working with a great team is the most important part of filmmaking for me.

  

  Miguel Sapochnik
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Filmmaking

• A lot of people tell me now I'm their inspiration. They say, 'I don't play baseball,' and then they mention whatever - engineer, doctor, college student, high school student - but they're hurt because, for some reason, people feel shame about themselves or embarrassed because they are short or skinny or fat or whatever.

  

  Jose Altuve
  • People
  • Inspiration
  • Shame

• I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Up
  • Thought
  • Painting

• You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

  

  Alan Rudolph