Doug Liman Quotes

To be honest, when I started watching VR content, I was mostly disappointed and thought people could do better - not that different from when I set out to make 'Swingers' and thought, 'There's a better way to make an independent film.' Which is why 'Swingers' ended up being so much less expensive than anything like it.

Doug Liman

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I've been fascinated with interior design for as long as I can remember.

Matthew Williamson

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Why? Will no man ever do something without a why? Just like that? For the hell of it?

Michael Cacoyannis

ManHellWhyWillWithoutSomething

As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared.

Michael Cunningham

GreatLiteratureStudentFirstLast

I want witchcraft so bad that I can't stand it. I have wands in my apartment. And I use them sometimes. I walk into the kitchen with my wand, and I come out with something on a platter and I say, 'See, magic happens.' Works every time.

Amy Sedaris

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I would consider myself a perfectionist, yeah. I don't think that is always that helpful, either. Sometimes it's good to be a little more open-minded; you can overthink things when things are actually fine, and it's that moment that you lose it. Looking back, sometimes I've made mistakes from being a perfectionist.

Tom Odell

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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Rollo May

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All of business and all of politics is essentially fiction to those who live them. I have more experience with fiction than most senators because I do it all day, so their world didn't seem that foreign to me.

Joshua Cohen

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Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of 'others' and 'our' problems are being increasingly erased.

Janez Drnovsek

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The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.

Donna Tartt

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I like the ball in a big game. I'm not afraid to take it.

David Wells

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

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I remember being amazed that actors had a union. I thought only coal miners had unions, or guys that worked in automobile plants. That's an indication of how naive I was.

Peter Falk

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