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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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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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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He who gives love, receives love.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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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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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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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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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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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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I use a credit card for everything - and I choose one of the ones which gives you money back.
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It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
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Meditation is another dimension of natural beauty. People talk about appreciating natural beauty-climbing mountains, seeing giraffes and tigers in Africa, and all sorts of things. But nobody seems to appreciate this kind of natural beauty of ourselves. This is actually far more beautiful than flora and fauna, far more fantastic, far more painful and colorful and delightful.
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One of the things I would love for people to think about is social responsibility. If you are fortunate enough to be someone who owns land, I think you ought to be making the most efficient use of that land possible.
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Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.
