Curtis Hanson Quotes
I thought, "If I could bring these characters [Wonder Boys] to life and lead the audience to react the same way I did, this could be a really special picture." Then I read Michael's [Chabon] novel and got even more enthusiastic about it.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.
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Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.
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Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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I guess I'm reasonably confident in all honesty. But I definitely don't think I'm arrogant. I'm pretty down to earth, I mean I'm genuinely down to earth.
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It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty.
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I mean, look, I wear makeup in films. I don't wear makeup in real life. It's just part of the gig, that's all.
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The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.
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I thought, "If I could bring these characters [Wonder Boys] to life and lead the audience to react the same way I did, this could be a really special picture." Then I read Michael's [Chabon] novel and got even more enthusiastic about it.
