Curtis Hanson Quotes
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I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
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We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.
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I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.
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I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died.
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Everybody made mistakes for years, but by making them, everybody learned - myself, the franchise, coaches, players, LeBron, everybody.
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I'm a big believer of work/life balance. You need a little down time to recharge to make sure that when you're here, you're really all here. I still have a child in high school, so I go to her sporting events, even if it means leaving work and working again when I get home. I probably should work out a little more than I do.
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My uncle was in a ska band called the Top Cats; that was my first proper influence, as I was taken to see them every week. It sort of built up, the want to replicate it creatively.
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I get up around 8 o'clock, which gives me enough time to walk dogs and feed chickens and horses. Then I get to work in my home office upstairs, and basically, I don't stop until I've written 2,000 words and/or the Stephen Colbert show is over.
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My skin was really bad. Roxanne Rizzo's products were the first things that really cleared it up.
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If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
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It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.
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I've never met a woman ever, anywhere, bar none, that was more feminine than Dixie Carter.
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I'm not necessarily scanning for clues when I make documentaries.
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When I talk about work or my take on life, all the joyfulness and excitement never seem to make it in.
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My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.
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It is necessary above all that the citizens, who have rallied round the constitution, should be assured that the rights it guarantees will be respected with such a scrupulous fidelity as will reduce to despair its enemies, hidden or avowed.
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No woman who works full time and plays by the rules should have to raise her family in poverty.
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Twenty-five years now and I still love to watch my wife sleep. I'm fascinated by the way the unconscious self (the deeper self) rises when consciousness falls away and often expresses itself in the face of a sleeper.
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Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.
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I wake up to an email from the writers with the new script, and I always get so excited because I know it'll be better all-around than the script from the week before.
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I challenged Coleman and he accepted, he said he'd fight me. I pointed at Baroni and challenged him too, he looked at me with a bewildered look on his face and asked: "Me?", I said "Thats right, You!!" I also challenged Quinton Jackson and he looked at me and said "Me too?", and I responded. If you want some, there is some for you too!
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No matter what the award is, you put the right presenters on there, and that award becomes fun.
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Most scripts are so linear and simplistic in their plotline.
