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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The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.
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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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How people move around their city is a big deal. It affects productivity, security, health, and global warming, among other things.
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I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing 'Saturday Night Live' and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television.
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What's magical about [bears] is that they just spend one-hundred percent of every minute of every hour of every day being a bear. And a tree-frog spends all of its time being a tree-frog. We spend all our time trying to be somebody else.
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Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.
