Ned Tanen Quotes
There's nothing like a hit movie to make you think you're one of the chosen people. It's amazing how smart we are the morning after a hit opens.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.
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I hate the domestic life.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
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I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
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We are filmmakers, and we are specifically trying to entertain people.
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Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.
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The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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My first time coming over to North America was to New York around Christmastime when I was 7. My mom was a flight attendant, and she got put on to the Trans-Atlantic route over Christmastime, so she brought the whole family.
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There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.
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People want to hear your stories about these wonderful experiences you have, and that's what press tours are for.
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Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have made life most difficult for us.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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I chose biochemistry as my major and graduated after 4 years with an Honours degree in Biochemistry. During that time, I had come to love biochemistry research, although I was just getting my feet wet in laboratory research.
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There's nothing like a hit movie to make you think you're one of the chosen people. It's amazing how smart we are the morning after a hit opens.
