J. C. Chandor Quotes
I had a caricature view of the guy in the beret with the big megaphone, but a movie director and writer was beyond my role of understanding.
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I mean, you've kind of got the track down, especially with ovals. The only thing that improves is that when race conditions come, you know what to expect slightly more from the track and from your car.
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Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.
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Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.
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Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.
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I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
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If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would be in trouble because - not that I wouldn't be able to step up to it - but I wouldn't love it. I wouldn't want to be that person; that wouldn't be my natural thing.
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Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.
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In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed.
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Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.
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I am a role model, definitely and I definitely support women.
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With a horror movie, you don't want to anticipate where things are going to go.
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When you get to be a 45-year-old man, you start to realize: 'I know who I am, and I know who I'm not. I know my shortcomings, I know my strengths; maybe some of my shortcomings are my strengths.' You start to face yourself as you truly are.
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Chevy Stevens is in top form. ALWAYS WATCHING is a tense and twisty exploration of dark memories, hidden pasts, and a place that seems like heaven but might be hell. This is a deep and exciting novel, as unsettling as it is gripping.
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I had a caricature view of the guy in the beret with the big megaphone, but a movie director and writer was beyond my role of understanding.
