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Gus Van Sant Quotes

Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so there's lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on.

Gus Van Sant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: July 24, 1952

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Death Weird Island California Bigger

When I was younger, I looked to actors like they were from another planet. You couldn't believe you could be anywhere near that world. It was exciting. I kind of like that.

Jim Sturgess

World Believe You Kind Planet Like

The most important lesson I've learned is how rich and rewarding life is when one can engage in meaningful work, whether on the job or outside of work.

Melanne Verveer

Life Work Job Rich Lesson Important

Don't underestimate your kids. Don't be condescending, because they're children but they're not stupid.

Steve Carell

Children Stupid Underestimate Kids

You get to a point where it gets very complex, where you have money laundering activities, drug related activities, and terrorist support activities converging at certain points and becoming one.

Sibel Edmonds

Money Support You Point Complex Get

It's hard to let new stuff in. And whether that admits a weakness, I don't know.

Martin Scorsese

Weakness New Know Hard Stuff

It serves anyone, when they're going into some project, to try to distance themselves from the material so you can really have an objective viewpoint.

Mike Colter

You Distance Try Project Going Some

People were floored when they saw that the underwear bomber, after less than 50 minutes of interrogation, was given the rights, privileges, and immunities of an American citizen under the Constitution.

Michele Bachmann

People Constitution American Citizen

God's commandments are not given to limit or punish us.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

God Limit Us Given Punish

To me, 'Auto Music' wasn't work. It was in-between work.

Brian Reitzell

Work Music Me In-Between Auto

Writing is the place where I can do it all and get away with it. You can't do that in the theatre.

Alice Ripley

Writing Theatre You I Can Place Get

With fiction, you can take something that bothers you, or that you don't have in clear focus, and you can put it under as much stress as you want. Really get underneath the skin. With nonfiction, you're restricted to what happened.

Phil Klay

Focus Stress You Skin Want Fiction

Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent.

Paul Theroux

Life My Life Profound Influenced