Joe Dante Quotes

I mean, movies are all geared to be basically under 25, and they're all tentpoles, explosions, excitement and all that - they take advantage of the big screen, which is great.

Joe Dante

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Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.

Jodie Foster

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Being a woman has always been a powerful thing, where history has sometimes dictated otherwise, but I believe that a woman can be compassionate, sensitive, soft, kind.

Jessica Chastain

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Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.

John Legend

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My usual day is I get up around 11 o'clock and do yoga and then eat afterwards. Then I have sound check and play soccer and do running with the guys in the band after sound check, and then do the show and eat dinner after the show and usually get to bed around 3 o'clock by the time we get everybody on the bus and get rolling.

Michael Franti

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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Soren Kierkegaard

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My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

Simon Newcomb

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I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.

Tony Gilroy

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I'm a really boring bloke, actually. My business is my hobby.

Lloyd Dorfman

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As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

Dennis Potter

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It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV.

Doug Liman

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I can consciously say I like squashing things because I saw 'Tom and Jerry' films or Charlie Chaplin in 'Modern Times.' That's true.

Cornelia Parker

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Critics think we try to make bad films. They think we want to spend five months of our lives making something bad. We always go out with the best of intentions, whether it's fluffy comedy or a drama.

Chris Pine

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