- Ice Cream
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think Quotes
Quotes that share what people really think.
Many quotes here open with a direct 'I think,' offering personal beliefs - some lighthearted, like using comedy as a defense, others sobering, including grim predictions about where humanity is headed. A few weigh in on cryptography and the future of communication, a subject also touched on in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice for radio. My voice is the utterly normal voice, but sheer repetition has made them think it's OK. Mick Jagger once was asked, 'What makes a hit song? He said, 'Repetition.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most simply but profoundly, I chose to live an honest life, which I think as a gay person is not a given.
- Compels
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on some level. But it no longer compels me the way it did for so many years.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been interested in how the individual comes to know and accept him or herself, which I think has been hard for me.
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three years before Martin Luther King was killed, and I think that history of civil action was something that I had in my blood.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's interesting: What is the generational effect of the experience of being a gay person in America? For my generation, it was very difficult.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I loved about 'Goodfellas' is that it's a film about bad behavior - but told with great energy and without judgment - but it doesn't actually shy away from the consequences of that behavior in the characters' lives, which I think is similar in 'Keep the Lights On.'
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.
- Nov 07, 2020
PepsiCo did not have a woman in the senior ranks, nor a foreign-born person who was willing to think differently.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020