Colin Trevorrow Quotes
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The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.
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In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
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I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.
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I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between questioning HIV and the obvious value of safe-sex practices.
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Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
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There are no more white linen sofas in my house. We have a rule here: Anything below 36 inches has to be brown or black - the color of chocolate or peanut butter!
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You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.
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There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we're still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile.
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Be open and honest, but perceptive to your boss's situation. That's my advice to graduates worried about working with a new boss.
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I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin.
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There are kids going into chemistry and biology because of 'CSI.'
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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
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My tastes are Viennese.
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Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.
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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
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Nothing lasts in New York. The life that is lived there, however, is as intense as it gets.
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You find me offensive? I find you offensive, for finding me offensive.
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Five of the above rules are of absolute necessity, and cannot be dispensed with without essential defect and often without error.
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Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.... Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.
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We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues - all those things that combine to make up the genre. It was probably storytelling before it was songwriting, as far as country music is concerned. It's fun to be a part of that and tip the hat to that. You know, and keep that tradition alive.
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I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.
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They're called cliches because they're true, you know. Besides, life is quite complicated enough...
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There in front of me was the Senator on the floor being held by the busboy. There was nobody else around, and I made my first frame, and I forgot to focus the camera. The second frame was a little more in focus... then just for a second, while everything was open, the busboy looked up, and he had this look in his eye. I made that picture, and then suddenly the whole situation closed in again. And it became bedlam.(On the 1968 shooting of U.S. presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy.)
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I think intensity is one thing, and gore is another.
