Curtis Hanson Quotes
It was a unique experience in several ways, because I don't think Sam [Fuller] had ever collaborated with another writer over his whole career.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
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If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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Few things are as essential as education.
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Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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But make no mistake. My counterpart is capable of a great deal of ruthlessness in pursuit of a just cause. He believes he has right on his side. And men who think they have right on their side are always the most dangerous sort.
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The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
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It is a very busy mission: every day has some major goals that we have to get through, but my experience before has been that at least in the evening, you kind of take a deep breath and look around where you are and have some downtime.
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If you can see life as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive.
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It was a unique experience in several ways, because I don't think Sam [Fuller] had ever collaborated with another writer over his whole career.
