Arthur Hiller Quotes
People were very fond of the project, but nobody could have - or would have - predicted how much of a phenomenon it would become.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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We need to build systems that can automatically figure out what's high quality and what's not, and encourage users to contribute high-quality content. There's a lot of technical challenges in that.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
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It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
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I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.
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Math is one of my favorite subjects.
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I bought an island in 1987. It's in one of the lakes in Canada. I went around it in my boat and went to the real estate office and bought it. It's the best $65,000 I've ever spent. My family camp on it and we have great times there.
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I love my district, the 37th Legislative District in Washington State, where I have lived for more than 20 years.
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When I work with my art department on putting imagery together for my blog posts I always think, 'Would I pin this?' That really helps.
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Creating something new is the difficult part. To make it and build it and get everyone to follow? Amazing.
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So many people are concerned with being the perfect 'something.' Whether it's the perfect singer, the perfect sexy girl, or the perfect feminist. I don't want to be the perfect anything.
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I think the job of art and drama is to hold a mirror up to those things and say, 'What do you think about it?'
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People were very fond of the project, but nobody could have - or would have - predicted how much of a phenomenon it would become.
