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#1. Well that's the point: People don't normally take away things from films anymore. You go and see a $100 million film, half an hour later, your biggest concern is what are you going to be eating.

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#2. But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off.

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#3. Rationalizing is the bringing of ideals down to the level of one's conduct. Repentance is the bringing of one's conduct up to the level of his ideals.

Spencer W. Kimball

#4. Maybe It's not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do.

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#5. The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They're just good films. So why we can't we have good films that happen to have black people, or Asian, or Latino, or any other minority group in them?

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#6. Normally, we see characters that have God complexes. How interesting, I thought, it would be to capitalize on that. And say, OK, well fine, you have a God complex, well this person has a Satan complex. And the doctor chooses to treat him scientifically.

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#7. Once we recognize that all things are impermanent, we have no problem enjoying them. In fact, real peace and joy are only possible when we see clearly into the nature of impermanence.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#8. It is vain to speak of approaching judgment when finding our place, our portion, and our enjoyment in the very scene which is to be judged.

Charles Henry Mackintosh

#9. I found, through the process of doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower,' that I really love directing movies and I love writing books and so this will become the centerpiece of my career for the next ten or twenty years. Doing these adaptations.

Stephen Chbosky

#10. Once you accept that playing the game will be uncomfortable, and you do it for a while, it will become much easier (like it does when getting fit). When you excel at it, you will find your ability to get what you want thrilling.

Ray Dalio

#11. Freedom lies in the quest for it, and ends where people have stopped asking about it.

Anonymous

#12. Regardless of what people ultimately think about Crazy As Hell, It's not the type of film that, ten minutes after seeing it, you're only focused on what you want to eat.

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#13. We help our clients discover and correct the underlying conditions that are causing them to self-medicate, to seek relief in substances and addictive behavior.

Chris Prentiss

#14. I didn't really understand the importance of little things. I didn't really understand that it was the little foxes that spoil the vine. And if we're not faithful in little things, that God will never be able to make us ruler over great things.

Joyce Meyer

#15. some he hadn't. He found an old family photo album in the living room credenza. He sat at the kitchen table and

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#16. Art should offend people because art should challenge people.

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#17. Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. Having nineteen days and no budget makes it extremely difficult.

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#18. But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I don't want to be an actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So that's a big difference.

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#19. I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time.

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#20. It can't all be dreams because a broken dream will kill you as surely as a nightmare will, and with a lot less mercy. At least the nightmares don't smile while they take you down.

Seanan McGuire

#21. I heard a story the other night about an editor who visited the Iowa Workshop and, when asked what sorts of books she published, replied, "Classic books." One of the students asked her, "You mean like Kafka?" Apparently she said, "Oh, I don't think I would publish Kafka."

Matthew Specktor

#22. I don't see me doing $100 million films because $100 million films, the very nature of them, you need to offend as few people as possible just to make your money back.

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#23. It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.

Nicholas Sparks

#24. It's my company and I believe in the company that's why I started it.

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#25. I was putting so much time and energy into just my work, but I was raised [to believe] that family comes first.

Katherine Heigl

#26. Sometimes you want to read what people write about you, obviously.

Ansel Elgort

#27. Ever since I've left, I've been doing nothing but this film and traveling, promoting and doing festivals. So the good thing is that I'm not sitting around pining over whether I made the right choice in leaving. I'm moving and grooving.

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#28. Hey, is there a female version of wingman? Wingwoman sounds awkward. I'm coining a new phrase: Titcaptain. Tell your friends.

Cory O'Brien

#29. You can't do psychological thrillers. There's no audience. I've heard this. I've heard this from studios.

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#30. So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.

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#31. So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now I just lay around all day in my underwear eating Cheerios. I have this structure. I still have to do this and the difference is I'm doing this for me and my company.

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#32. The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them.

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#33. Film, I think, is my medium.

Pia Zadora

#34. I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.

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