Kathleen Kennedy Quotes
The producer, in effect, has to work as a translator. You form a very tight relationship with the director and writer from the beginning, and then you are constantly communicating to the various people that begin to come into the process, as you are trying to manage to hold on to a vision that needs to be communicated over a long period of time.
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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Women love a self-confident bald man.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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I respect the system out there in Hollywood, I really do, but I'm very intent on art versus commerce. I want to do it all - film, TV and theatre - if it's the right job.
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Money is emphasized in Scripture simply because our temptation to love it is inexplicably powerful.
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It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.
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Oh my God, the luxuries we have in America. We just don't even realize because you live in it long enough and you come to expect it, but when you get to take a step outside of it you really, really get to recognize how blessed we are and how much we have.
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The whole environmental policy in the Netherlands has no substance any more.
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We won't enshrine the Tories' policies in Scotland. We won't run away from the Tories but then let them run our economy. We will face up to the Tories, and we will beat them.
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The producer, in effect, has to work as a translator. You form a very tight relationship with the director and writer from the beginning, and then you are constantly communicating to the various people that begin to come into the process, as you are trying to manage to hold on to a vision that needs to be communicated over a long period of time.
