Terry Zwigoff Quotes

My hat's off to documentary filmmakers. I don't know if I'm ever going back to it. You're treated like a second-class citizen at most film festivals. You take the bus while everybody else is flown first-class. If you're a feature film director, you're put in a five-star hotel, and if you're a documentary director, you stay in a Motel 6.

Terry Zwigoff

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Nobody can hide their birthdays anymore, so there's no point in lying.

Jessica Walter

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In show business, you get chewed up and spit out.

John Aniston

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I think that people are most comfortable when the world is orderly. I think there's the sense that when you begin questioning basic distinctions, such as the distinction between being male and being female, it represents a threat to the social order.

Andrew Solomon

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But there is a need to explore ways we can preserve the promise of Social Security for future generations.

Sue Kelly

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'The Secret Life of Bees' was my first novel, so I had no process. I was flying by the seat of my pants, as they say, trying to understand how I, as a novelist, would work with story.

Sue Monk Kidd

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If you're holding a grudge against somebody over the battle you just went through, you might be working with them on the next bill.

Steve Scalise

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We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.

Robert Duvall

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No sleep makes a human into another human.

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'War on Everyone,' I think... the script was hilarious to me, but it's very dark, dark humor. It's super dark.

Michael Pena

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We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

Deepak Chopra

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My premise is that there's something hardwired into our DNA, that we as a species came and evolved from caves and clans and tribes, and therefore, we as a species care more about the things that are local to us than we care about the things that are 'over there' from us.

Chris Milk

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In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever.

William J. Clinton

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