- Pleasure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Matter Quotes
On what actually counts.
This page starts with a striking reframe of confinement as something that can happen mentally even to people who are physically free, and pairs it with career advice about simply landing that first entry-level role. For related thinking, see Life.
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- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before, revolutions used to have ideological names. They could be communist, they could be liberal, they could be fascist or Islamic. Now, the revolutions are called under the medium which is most used. You have Facebook revolutions, Twitter revolutions. The content doesn't matter anymore - the problem is the media.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Pressure' is not a word that I associate with very much; it is a matter of perspective. It depends on your disposition as a person. It can either be that you are pressurised by something, or you can be motivated and encouraged by it.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kind of stuff I usually read is a bit more on the literary side, like books that I think are influential in the sense that they're doing pulpy subject matter in a refined way. Like 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy; I loved that book.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.
- Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020