Curtis Hanson Quotes
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There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
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I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you know' seems to be the placeholder of choice, but when I'm writing dialogue, I tend to use those phrases because that's how people talk.
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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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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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You're either ghetto or you're not.
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We seem, as a culture, to start to adhere to these antiheroes and have grown tired of the traditional, straight-up-and-down good guy.
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I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
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I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.
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I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
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Edinburgh is a sort of gothic fairytale city, and it can be a gothic horror city as well.
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Fancy GPS systems and space-age tractors are what most excite the farmers I know and astound their city friends.
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Because I'm a woman, because I'm a character actress, because I'm over 40, I'll be very interested to see, not just for me but for other actresses, how Hollywood treats us in the next ten, fifteen years. I'm hoping that it's not going to be so easy to shove people under the rug, as they have in the past.
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It is economically irrational to exclude large environmental costs from the balance sheets of the producers and the consumers. You are only kidding yourself if you export those costs on to society as a whole.
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Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.
