Scott Derrickson Quotes

I spent a lot of my adult life overcoming fear. It was a subject I knew a lot about, and it's one of the most important and most powerful human emotions. Fear is one of the greatest driving forces in the world. So I thought I could go into the horror genre and do things differently and contribute a different point of view.

Scott Derrickson

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LifeFearWorldOvercomingThought

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

Robert Redford

ArtPoliticsSoulHonorThings

Wine is bottled poetry.

Robert Louis Stevenson

FoodPoetryWineBottled

I have these huge black foam boards on the wall, and tacked to them, I have these white punch cards with my story ideas, scenes and notes.

Robert Crais

IdeasStoryBlackWhiteCardsWall

Mexico will under no circumstance pay for the wall that Mr. Trump is proposing.

Luis Videgaray Caso

WallWillMexicoPayTrumpMr

I really admire Airbnb as a pioneer of the sharing economy and for building community. They've found an elegant way to help hosts make more money and for guests to have authentic experiences. It brings those people together in a unique way.

Logan Green

CommunityMoneyTogetherPeopleHelp

I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

HomeLiveEyesMyselfWorldYear

I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie.

Brian De Palma

MeStoryDreamSeemGetStraight

Mum was always hard-working. She came over from Spain and bought her own council house.

Anton du Beke

HouseSheAlwaysOverOwnHer

The development agenda is not a straightforward one; it's a process with serious hurdles, but it's a path we've chosen to go down.

Augustin Matata Ponyo

PathProcessDownGoSeriousChosen

In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as opposed to as an individual performance is a conflicting thing. I do stand alone, and yet it's not about being an individual or being ambitious.

Arundhati Roy

HeartAloneWritingPerformanceWay

The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.

Ato Boldon

TrustFootballJobMeLanguageLook

We all want happiness in our life. I mean, there are so many books on, like, how to be happy and what you need for happiness, and you want that for your kid, too; you want your kid to be happy.

Pete Docter

LifeHappinessHappyBe HappyYou

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