Curtis Hanson Quotes
So the city [Pittsburgh] was faced with that question of "What to do now?" because it can't turn back the clock and be what it once was. So thematically, it seemed like the perfect location for the movie. And then, it's a matter of how we get that feeling into the picture and make it a part of [Michael] Chabon's story.

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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.
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I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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I can always go back to education.
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.
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There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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I consider not what Parmenion should receive, but what Alexander should give.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.
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Being a Pagan without knowing much about Paganism is a bit silly, in the sense that you would probably have been a Pagan had you known more, but you could not really be because you only knew so much about it.
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So the city [Pittsburgh] was faced with that question of "What to do now?" because it can't turn back the clock and be what it once was. So thematically, it seemed like the perfect location for the movie. And then, it's a matter of how we get that feeling into the picture and make it a part of [Michael] Chabon's story.