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Now that I'm older, I have a much better appreciation of nature, and I love being alone. Gia Coppola
Love Alone Nature Appreciation Better Older Being Being Alone Much Now
I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing. Ingmar Bergman
Love Sit Nothing Out Window Lazy Look Very Chair
You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it. J. J. Abrams
Time You Never Had Know Ticking Clock Want Use
I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the - you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away. James Cameron
You People Water About Small Through River Small Town Town Know Around Falls Lot Five Canada Little Miles Niagara Lived Away Four
Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me. Jan de Bont
Me Creativity Imagination Exciting Using
A film is a petrified fountain of thought. Jean Cocteau
Thought Petrified Film Fountain
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently. Jean Cocteau
Draw Unravel Poets Tie Up Handwriting Again Then Differently
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. Jean Cocteau
Beautiful Art Time Fashion Ugly Become Other More Beautiful Things Frequently Always Hand Which Produces Things
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? Jean Cocteau
Success Luck Believe Else Those Must Like How Explain
Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture. Jean Cocteau
Work Plant About Like Talk His Discuss Artist Asking
To be unkind to anyone. There's no room for that. Not on my watch. Jennifer Konner
Unkind Anyone Room Watch
People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life. John Lasseter
Life Great People Little Things World Kids Tend Observation Animation Animators Observers Also Up Wonder Get Childlike Happen Interest Little Who Grow Grow Up Things
White folks, no matter how well-meaning or open-minded, have no true idea what it's like to be black in America. That's not a slam against white people or an accusation of latent bigotry. But the fact is that we all live in an Anglo-dominated society. John Ridley
People Matter Black White Live Society Latent Folks Fact True Idea Open-Minded Like Well-Meaning How America Accusation Against Slam
I met Tupac through Queen Latifah in New York at this party that we were at, at a place downtown called Big City Diner. John Singleton
Queen Big Party Met Diner City Through New Big City Were York New York Place Tupac Downtown
As a storyteller, when you see somebody who is the character you envisioned, you feel this energy in the room. John Singleton
Character You Somebody Energy See Feel Envisioned Storyteller Room Who
The nightlife in Baltimore is very mixed. Any gay people I know go to the hipster bars; they don't go to the gay bars. Start your night at the Club Charles, and then you can meet people to go other places. The Charles has been Baltimore's favourite cool hipster bar forever. John Waters
Gay You People Club Other Meet Has-Been Favourite Charles Know Go Mixed Been Baltimore Very Forever Any Bar Places Then Your Cool Bars Start Night Nightlife
There are things that I can tell my friends that I just can't tell my family, just as far as how I'm feeling about things. My friends know me the best in a certain way. I just think old friends are really, really important. Jonathan Levine
Best Family Me Old Feeling Important Old Friends Think Way Tell About Know How Friends Just As Far As Far Really Certain Certain Way Things
I think that idea that sort of our emotional self and our emotional life is a faucet that you turn on and off, and that we are in control of it entirely, that's a really appealing idea for a lot of people. But there are certainly the times where it's appealing to me, but it never quite works the way I hoped it would. Karyn Kusama
Life Me You People Life Is A Control Think On And Off Our Way Faucet Hoped Would Entirely Emotional Self Emotional Life Never Idea Sort Lot Off Times Quite Where Turn Turn-On Really Certainly Appealing Works
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts. Ken Burns
Great Genius Country Jazz Our Reflects Contribution Improvisation Arts
All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time. Larry Cohen
Time You Entertainment People Films Otherwise Statement Out Kind Entertain See Some About Something Polemic Message Make Becomes Got Get Trying Same Same Time Want Them Coat
Thank God I'm an atheist. Luis Bunuel
God Atheist Thank God Thank
If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead. Luis Bunuel
Daily Me You Bad Luck Doubt Luck Cocktail Say Bad Had Miss Concerned Were Where Plan Ask Certain Certain Things Ever Things
Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether. Luis Bunuel
Freedom People Somewhere Imagination Despite Our Lies Only Fact Mystery Between Protects Altogether Reduce Off Trying The Only Thing Fortunately Keep Thing Chance
Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each other's presence. Malcolm D. Lee
Become Other About Sharing Material Material Things Been Being Stories Holidays Each Things Presence
If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant? Martin Scorsese
Food You Mother Italian Food Restaurant Go Italian Should Your Cooks Why
Nobody lives without making mistakes. Michael Cimino
Mistakes Making Mistakes Nobody Without Making Lives
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