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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I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.
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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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If you are a black person growing up in America, chances are pretty good that you have experienced the police pulling you over in front of your mother's house because you 'had a headlight out.'
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Either Malcolm X or Martin [Luther King] could have played the role of a unifier, but it was - Malcolm as long as he remained within the Nation of Islam, talking to the converted, he did not represent a fundamental threat to the American government.
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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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I am genuinely sorry that my attendance at an event which, other than my comments, appears to have primarily involved a discussion of cockfighting, has created concern on the part of many Kentucky voters.
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Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.
