Gavid Hood Quotes
When you're used to looking through a stills lens and you have to capture an emotional moment, and that picture is not moving and yet it has to have impact, I think that's the first influence on my style.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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I don't believe in miracles.
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I love parties. I love a good time.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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I'm not a fan of soccer, for sure not.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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Survival is not about being fearless. It's about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.
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At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.
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We're at the end of an era of failed leadership. We have been led by a divider Barack Obama who has sliced and diced the electorate, pitting American against American for political purposes.
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We know it is impossible to go on finding, moving and wasting oil, leveling forests, paving land, dumping poisons, and multiplying our numbers. A new way of life, a new set of thoughts must be found.
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I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well.
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When you're used to looking through a stills lens and you have to capture an emotional moment, and that picture is not moving and yet it has to have impact, I think that's the first influence on my style.
