Curtis Hanson Quotes
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My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.
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If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
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A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.
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It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.
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I like to have fun, just stay relaxed.
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Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.
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I like it when my wife is in her jeans, with very little makeup. But, I also appreciate the range - the different ways she can look. The moment she walks out all dressed up and... whoa! That's always good.
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I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the quality, not the quantity.
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When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
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Soviet expansionism in Europe, the battle for control of China, and the 1950 invasion of South Korea would shatter once-euphoric dreams of post-war cooperation with the Kremlin.
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On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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If it feels like we're re-creating something rather than creating something, we don't do it.
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... men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them - not even in the sad circumstances of mental exhaustion.
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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We would like to see the United States play a more effective role to push the peace process forward.
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I can't speak to how Michael [Douglas] approached it in terms of his process.
