Curtis Hanson Quotes
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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I lost about 60 pounds. I don't really have a moment specifically that made me do it. I remember little things, like, when I was in Japan, I remember looking around at the portion sizes of a fast food restaurant and being like, 'Well, this has something to do with it.' Americans definitely eat too much.
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Despite great advances in women's rights, statistics show that when it comes to the balance of power between the sexes, equality is far from being a global reality.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.
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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
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Every child deserves to grow up knowing their potential and feeling confident that they won't fall at the first hurdle - that they cope with life's setbacks.
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I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.
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I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.
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It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.
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Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.
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The first fight I saw live, the fighter I was shadowing lost in front of a crowd of forty thousand people. The scale of that is staggering to me. Undergoing that overlap between something very personal and something very public strikes me as both admirable and also somewhat terrifying.
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I'm still a great movie fan, and I guess that's the answer to your question.
