Adrian Lyne Quotes
The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.
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I'm pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I've only had really dumb injuries, like sprained ankles and allergic reactions. I did have to go to the hospital after slicing my finger while trying to cut a Kaiser roll in half.
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I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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My kids are very special; they can bring a lot of surprise.
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I was convinced that I was going to be onstage for the rest of my life.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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One heart cannot serve two masters.
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Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.
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The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.
