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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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"The big miracle you await will likely first appear in a small encounter or chance event. So always be aware and open, you never know what today will bring."

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"Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities."

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"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity."

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"Don't wait for the opportunity, create it."

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"Just like watering the field will cause both the desired seed and the undesirable weed to germinate, the opportunities for your mission in life will be equally presented with real-life threats."

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"No noble opportunity is small. Mind small opportunities with noble traits, though they may seem quite uncanny at first sight; in the mind, you shall wonder!"

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"It is the ultimate opportunity of a lifetime to try to understand the dreams and desires of a blooming flower."

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"Every day is a new opportunity to earn the lost values, but not for an apathetic."

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"If you leave your soil untilled, you will not benefit from God's rain. Even if God pours down a heavy rainfall, it will only grow weeds on your land."

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"One mustn't refuse the unusual, if it is offered to one."

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"If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason."
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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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"A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do."
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"For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty."
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"You have to think with the heart."
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"Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands."
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"And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world."
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