Colin Trevorrow Quotes
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.
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I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
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In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
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I had three attorneys dedicated solely to find the statistic of the number of missing Native American women on reservations. Any reservation, not just 'Wind River.' They don't exist. The federal government, which is responsible for the reservations, don't keep those stats.
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My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.
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Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.
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My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.
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When I taught, all my best students were women.
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I hope it's always going to be a mix between theatre, film and radio. I've been very lucky living in London that you can do all that - in New York and L.A., there's more of a structure for film in L.A. and theatre in New York. In London, our industry is smaller, but it produces brilliant work all in one place.
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There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.
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Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
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There's life outside Backstreet Boys that is going on and continuing.
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I regard it as the irresistible effect of the Copernican astronomy to have made the theological scheme of redemption absolutely incredible
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Conventional politicians almost never think their philosophy through and set it down for everyone to examine. In most cases, they don't dare. Republicans would soon discover that they're actually socialists. Democrats would discover that they're actually fascists.
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You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
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I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good.
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The danger of Americans being killed, the danger of divisiveness that would accrue from those developments ... are all too real. A superpower should not play that kind of role in a cauldron of trouble, because sooner or later we are going to get hurt.
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Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.
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I'm not a good businessman and I don't promote myself particularly well. It's best I don't talk to anybody lest I alienate myself.
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I'm very interested in 3D.
