Logan Mankins Quotes
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
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I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.
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In the case of 'The Deep,' because of the people involved, the talent and the real lives of people who died, I wanted to make the most honest film I could. And sometimes that's the best way to go: Just make the best version of the film you can.
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A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
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I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.
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I'm kind of like a bit of everything wrapped into one.
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My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.
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Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things.
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We believe strongly in transparency and accountability, which is why Teach For America encourages rigorous independent evaluations of our program. Our mission is too important to operate in any other way.
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
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I'd like to direct myself but I'm a cinephile and I also would like to just step behind the camera and be on the other end of making movies.
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Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to spread out the garden of earthly delights.
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When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.
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If you give a man a fish, he is hungry again in an hour. If you teach him to catch a fish, you do him a good turn.
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That ear - I mean, Jesus, he's got to will that to the Smithsonian.
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I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.
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If you could still run and play, there's no reason to go see a doctor, right?
