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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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 was just lucky I lived in this time of mass-market paperbacks.
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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
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My brother's a grip. My mom's a scriptwriter. My dad's a director. So it's like, at heart, I'm a below-the-line girl.
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Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.
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If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.
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Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.
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Perfect love casteth out fear.
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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.
