Curtis Hanson Quotes
My very first professional writing credit was on a movie called The Dunwich Horror, and Roger Corman was the executive producer.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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I think all of us are thankful every day we get to put this uniform on, and we play this game. So try not to take any days for granted. Every time you take the field, give a hundred percent and leave it all out there.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
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At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
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Our approach at Apple has always been to make products we're proud to own and use ourselves.
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Brother says he's telling about you playing Doctor with that girl.
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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how they don't want to be a sex symbol.
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Since cowardice must occur at a time and place where an enemy either has already appeared or may yet turn up, servicemen in peacetime - and ordinary civilians - can breathe a sigh of relief. If you are yellow-bellied back home, you're not technically a coward.
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My very first professional writing credit was on a movie called The Dunwich Horror, and Roger Corman was the executive producer.
