"Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part."

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Source : "Chris Tucker and Brett Ratner". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 07, 2007.

Brett Ratner

#Listening Quotes #Acting Quotes #Hardest Quotes

“Though Jack Nubbins was extremely talented, Quenten Cassidy had viewed the Specter; when he reached down through the familiar layers of gloom and fatigue he generally found more there than a nameless and transient desire to acquire plastic trophies. He and Nubbins were not even in the same ball park.”
“The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts.”
“I think it's relatively easy to play defense against a team that can only do one thing. Unfortunately, that's not what we're talking about here with Seattle. They have a great running back - they have a great group of running backs - but Lynch obviously is really kind of in a class by himself. The quarterback's a problem, the receivers are a problem, they have a good offensive line.”
“A mixtape is for the street, it's something you without necessarily thinking about it, because you have to stay in the game. It's like writing an e-mail saying hello to your friends.”

Source : Source: theurbandaily.com
“My two rules of cooking: keep it fresh and keep it simple.”
“Everybody is in your business, gossiping and being mean spirited. It's different. Sometimes I'm like, "Do I want to do this?," because it's not about the art anymore. It's a struggle. There's part of me that wants to share my gift, which is art, and if I don't, am I taking away something that the Creator gave me to share? At the same time, I don't want to be a part of feeding the dumbing down of society.”
“The Israel stories were really hard for me to write, because I think that my book is very much about politics, but it isn't political. It really was important for me to not have a political agenda at all, because I have a hard time stomaching any political fiction that feels message-y.”
“Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.”

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