Way Quotes
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
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The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself.
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
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It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!
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Counting the ways the Book of Mormon brings peace to the soul is like counting the sand on the seashore.
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In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
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Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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The social inefficiency of capitalism is going to clash at some point with the technological innovations capitalism engenders, and it is out of that contradiction that a more efficient way of organising production and distribution and culture will emerge.
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I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors.
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The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.
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Girls who stay true to themselves manage to find some way to respect the parts of themselves that are spiritual. They work for the betterment of the world. Girls who act from their false selves are often cynical about making the world a better place. They have given up hope. Only when they reconnect with the parts of themselves that are alive and true will they again have the energy to take on the culture and fight to save the planet.
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What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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I started out as a singer and a musician, and I was taught that your job is just to get out of the way of Brahms or Arthur Miller or Shakespeare and convey the brilliance that they created.
