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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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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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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But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access.
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America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.
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When somebody's face-to-face with you saying, 'I may not have been here had I not read your book,' how do you respond to that? The first several times I traveled, it was almost too much. I was totally grateful, but emotionally, it was really hard.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.
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Earlier today Martha Stewart issued a statement saying 'I am innocent and will fight to clear my name.' Yeah, Martha then said 'I look forward to the day when people stop thinking I am guilty and get back to thinking I am cold and arrogant.'
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I usually do films, and you do two months and then forget about it.
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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.
