Curtis Hanson Quotes
I stopped doing that [photojournalism] and wrote some screenplays on speculation, because even though I wanted to direct, to direct you need a lot of money. Even for a cheap movie, you need film stock and equipment and actors.
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I love the idea of getting up early on Sundays and walking to the market to pick up fresh fruits and vegetables. It's a good way to start my day, and it makes me feel like I've accomplished something before other people are even awake.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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Most men are fragile.
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I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
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You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
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I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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I've been cutting my hair ever since college. I try to do that whenever it gets rough. I'm not too cheap to go the barber shop, but I mostly try to do that by myself. I try to keep my skills sharp.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
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Just as the creative artist is not allowed to choose, neither is he permitted to turn his back on anything: a single refusal, and he is cast out of the state of grace and becomes sinful all the way through.
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People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money for therapy.
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There are a lot of people who can now see me as an artist for the first time.
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I'm a fan of Bjork, a fan of Premier, you know, those are the first two names that come to my mind. You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.
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I stopped doing that [photojournalism] and wrote some screenplays on speculation, because even though I wanted to direct, to direct you need a lot of money. Even for a cheap movie, you need film stock and equipment and actors.
