- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Independent' means one thing to me: It means that regardless of the source of financing, the director's voice is extremely present. It's such a pretentious term, but it's auteurist cinema. Director-driven, personal, auteurist... Whatever word you want.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
You do not have to ladle on the impasto to make a point about human frailty or ambitions.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably haven't read them.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you're a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you're trying to get a film financed.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best actors are always the ones who've directed as well, as they understand all the problems you face.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at all.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you lose sight of the smaller accomplishments, you end up with an imbalance in your life.
- Feudalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't happy with the outcome in Vietnam. Now, I've never said that, but, you know, I'm getting to an age where I think I'd better start saying it... And I don't mean that to sound that I'm being critical of somebody or blaming somebody.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the Khrushchev - beating down of Jack Kennedy in Vienna, that President Kennedy believed that we had to join the battle for the Third World, and the next crisis that developed in that regards was Vietnam.
- Nov 07, 2020
You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
- Framing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020