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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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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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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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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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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My first priority is trying to protect my family.
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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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When I do a movie, that's just a couple months out of my year and out of my life. All the other months I'm just at home, running around doing errands with my mom and going to sleepovers. I feel like I have that side of my life, and then I also do the films - which is just sort of a plus.
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There's no "brothers" when it comes to white people. We are just complete individuals. We don't care about each other. He's not my brother; my brother lives in Ohio - I don't know that guy.
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We sound like the Bay City Rollers after an assault by Black Sabbath. And, we vomit onstage better than anyone.
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I never - when I go into a project, I don't think too much about if there's a lot of other sci-fi books out there or horror books or whatever. I just tell the stories I want to tell, and I think that is evident on the page.
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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.
