- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some Quotes
Small word, wide range of thought.
This page gathers quotes that turn on the word "some" — a small qualifier that shows up everywhere from filmmakers talking about creative limits to reflections on real historical friction, including the 1962 border war fought over disputed Himalayan terrain. If you're also drawn to broader affirmations, the Good quotes collection covers similar ground from another angle.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.
- Fitness
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.
- Free World
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even some of the most jaded D.C. types are still impressed when the leader of the free world enters the room.
- Big Star
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- Nov 07, 2020
The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cancer initiates due to a wide variety of causes, some of which are outside of our control or already occurred during our childhood.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
People pump gas and then they go in the store and pick up some things and pay for them, and they forget to mention the gas.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've made some films that were very much image based: 'Anna Karenina' and 'Pan,' for instance.
- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I've ever gotten close to being successful, I've found some way to screw it up.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a fan of auteur filmmaking, I'd say get yourself invested in some really good TV shows.
- George Bush
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look what's happened to Barack Obama over the last two years or George Bush for eight. It's a blood sport. But at some point I may feel the need to run for office again.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the greatest national security threats we face cannot be defeated or defended by traditional military hardware, but only by greatly enhanced cyberspace warfare, including both offensive cyber-warfare and cyber-security.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020