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Douglas Sirk

"Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films."

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"Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films."

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A.E. Samaan

"The window of opportunity is always open, just you have to find it."

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A.E. Samaan

"Where ignorance prevails, there an opportunity exists but the possessor of ignorance shall always be ignorant of opportunities."

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A.E. Samaan

"He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner."

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A.E. Samaan

"Today is the day you've been waiting for."

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A.E. Samaan

"Opportunity is always coming but never knocks on the door. You have to get up and meet him."

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"Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it."

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A.E. Samaan

"You must explore the timeless opportunities in life."

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A.E. Samaan

"It was so strange, the way that life moved forward: the twists and the dead ends, the sudden opportunities. She supposed if you could predict or foresee everything that was going to happen, you'd lose the motivation to go through it all. The promise was always in the possibility."

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"There will never be another day such as this one, with all the variables of life combining in such a way to form this opportunity. So don't let it go, grab it."

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A.E. Samaan

"Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted."

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Douglas Sirk
"The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy."

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Douglas Sirk
"And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble."

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Douglas Sirk
"Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye."

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Douglas Sirk
"Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands."

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Douglas Sirk
"You have to think with the heart."

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Douglas Sirk
"I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart."

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Douglas Sirk
"These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition."

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Douglas Sirk
"At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power."

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Douglas Sirk
"If I couldn't read, I couldn't live."

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"Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered."

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