Charles Roven Quotes
In films of terror, it's often not about being graphic. Or if there is a graphic image, it's extremely swift. Everyone talks about the shower scene in 'Psycho,' but that's the only graphic scene in the entire film.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture.
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I can't predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video.
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Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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I was seeing this girl recently and used to call her up saying I missed her. I can't help it after a few drinks!
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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As hitters, I think we take for granted at times how good our hands are and just how much the value of truly getting the barrel to the ball is. We don't have to do as much as we think we have to.
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With every little bit of change we make in our lives, we can maximize that small change simply by asking ourselves: 'What's next? What can I do now? What additional responsibility can I take on?'
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Medicines are only fit for old people.
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Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?
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When I give I give myself.
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It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.
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Why do a reality show if you're going to be fake?
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For a woman as for a man, marriage might enormously help or devastatingly hinder the growth of her power to contribute something impersonally valuable to the community in which she lived, but it was not that power, and could not be regarded as an end in itself. Nor, even, were children ends in themselves; it was useless to go on producing human beings merely in order that they, in their sequence, might produce others, and never turn from this business of continuous procreation to the accomplishment of some definite and lasting piece of work.
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I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.
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Good actors, especially when they know their character, will come in and either tell you in advance that they have an idea, or in the middle of the rehearsal or the scene they'll let it loose and you go, 'Ah that's great.'
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In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.
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In films of terror, it's often not about being graphic. Or if there is a graphic image, it's extremely swift. Everyone talks about the shower scene in 'Psycho,' but that's the only graphic scene in the entire film.
