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Richard Donner

"I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries."

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"As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio."

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Assegid Habtewold

"I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces."

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"I wasn't the kind of person that liked waiting for autographs or following them, I just liked to go to the shows, study their records, driving many, many hours to different states to go to concerts."

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Assegid Habtewold

"Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher."

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Assegid Habtewold

"My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood."

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"I always think about what I missed, and I think that was my driving force - never be satisfied with what I've done."

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Assegid Habtewold

"I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries."

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Assegid Habtewold

"I wasn't driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window."

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"Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar."

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"I mean, I guess I realized subconsciously that this is what I should be doing before I realized it, consciously. Verbally, I don't think I had committed to it, even though I was driving everywhere, every night, just trying to get on stage."

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Richard Donner
"That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you."

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Richard Donner
"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."

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Richard Donner
"I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective."

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Richard Donner
"I was tweaked by the idea of Superman immediately."

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Richard Donner
"In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor."

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Richard Donner
"I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company."

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Richard Donner
"I think what some people are doing with effects is starting to get silly. It's overused."

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Richard Donner
"When when my first feature opportunity came along, I wasn't prepared, but we did it in about 17 days."

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Richard Donner
"I've always wanted to do a Crichton book. I really love his writing."

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Richard Donner
"First cuts are a bitch for a director, because it's been so many months and you put your trust in your editor and you're going to see your film assembled for the first time. You look at it and go, This is terrible. I hate it."

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