Kenneth Lonergan Quotes

There are so many details in a movie that it's amazing how much work you'll do to change what adds up to not that much material.

Kenneth Lonergan

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I was a house dad. Once, my wife was working as a dispatcher at the fire department, and I was staying home and writing while baby-sitting my son, who hardly ever slept. So I wrote in twenty-minute patches. Some of that early stuff is just dreadful. I got a thousand rejects.

Joe R. Lansdale

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We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

Jesse Owens

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I enjoyed 'The Avengers.' I couldn't do that kind of movie though. Superheroes aren't my deal.

John Carpenter

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You still remember your SAT scores. And everybody else does too. Everybody's forgotten everything about themselves, everything else about high school. They remember their SAT scores.

John Katzman

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My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I'm obsessed.

John Krasinski

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I just had a really good time when I did my voice work for 'Call of Duty.' I've had nothing but great interaction with Activision.

Michael Cudlitz

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Thanks to malaria elimination efforts in United States in the 1940s, most people in the U.S. today have never had any direct contact with the disease, and most doctors have never seen a case. That success means it's easy to have a relaxed attitude about protecting ourselves.

Tom Frieden

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We ought not to be looking for something spectacular but rather develop a plan in conjunction with the White House to work our way out of this problem over the next six weeks.

Robert Teeter

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I played piano back in my elementary school days and I sang a cappella back in college.

Masi Oka

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The more precisely I can drive, the more I enjoy myself.

Michael Schumacher

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At first, I didn't know what to expect but I do say that I love our defensive coordinator, Tim Lewis.

Michael Strahan

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Cinema connects people: they respond as a group, you feel you are not alone, and you see you are not alone. Capitalism is destroying this social aspect of films, and even empathy, by creating the illusion that you are more important than the next person: 'You will buy this because you are special.' That is horrible.

Jasmila Zbanic

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