Cameron Crowe Quotes
Making a big Hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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It's not easy to talk about things that are still hurting.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
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Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in science and there's no way to get around that.
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If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
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Obsession with conventional ideas of 'success' can be harmful enough, but compound that stress with relationships, family, financial woes and health concerns, and you find yourself in a constant state of fight or flight. This causes people to be more reactionary, which further perpetuates the cycle of stress.
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Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.
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Making a big Hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card.
