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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You have to look at what 'Rumours' was, what drove the subject matter. You had two couples who were broken up or breaking up. And probably, you could say, success we had achieved was the catalyst for those breakups.
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Business in Russia was not being done like in the West, with contracts. In Russia, hundreds of millions of dollars were going forward and backward by word of mouth.
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I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.
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No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, don't confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.
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Optimism is the key.
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Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.
