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Quotes by American Authors
"The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff."
"I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east."
"I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a "mature" record means."
"I really want to do more mature, artistic, twisted, edgy films. That is my goal."
"The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things."
"Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone."
"There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story., 1958)"
"Understand me. I'm not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul."
"Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness."
"A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall."
"I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!"
"A person that doesn't know their worth will never know yours. Therefore, the longer you hang onto hope that they will finally see your worth is the moment you start to depreciate in value."
"I do not take constructive criticism from people who have never constructed anything."
"I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life."
"I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion."
"It's not the tools that you have faith in. Tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not."
"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks."
"It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits."
"If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out."
"If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you."
"A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before."
"Roger became a part of me, and when he went off the deep end and became a mad snake, I felt sorry for him."
"I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate."
"All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance."
"Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor."
"If you don't sell, it's not the product that's wrong, it's you."
"Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one."
"I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure."
"I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it."
"What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
"I was always such an incredible fan of John Woo, I just wanted to do this film with him."
"I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man."
"When you're on a set it can be very tedious and slow. It's just not as big as when you see it on film."
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