Darryl F. Zanuck Quotes
Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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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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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
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Proust is a huge author for me.
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I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
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Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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I was pretty nervous when I met Robert DeNiro. I kind of felt like a kid in a candy store for the first time. I couldn't wipe the grin off of my face. But Bobby DeNiro was really, really sweet and made me feel very comfortable. He's very low-key and just a superstar professional, and totally someone to be admired.
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All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.
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Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
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I love Japanese and Thai food, especially seafood, and eat out with my wife two or three times a week.
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I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.
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I'm not a good golfer. I don't have any hobbies, really.
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But the fight for our planet, physical and spiritual, a fight of cosmic proportions, is not a vague matter of the future; it has already started. The forces of Evil have begun their decisive offensive, you can feel their pressure, and yet your screens and publications ae full of prescribed smiles and raised glasses. What is the joy about?
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Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.
