Darryl F. Zanuck Quotes

Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

Darryl F. Zanuck

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• Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • May
  • Faith
  • Belief

• When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • God
  • Belief
  • Dies

• If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Men
  • Women
  • Today

• Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Opinion
  • Should

• 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.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • You
  • Brain
  • Silver

• 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.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Lost
  • London

• Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Future
  • Motivational
  • Now

• 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.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • People
  • Job
  • Lost

• 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.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Myself
  • Decision
  • Listening

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Done
  • Years
  • Sex

• Proust is a huge author for me.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Me
  • Author
  • Huge

• 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.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Figures
  • 20th Century

• 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.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Growing

• You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Book
  • Happiness

• I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.

  

  Young Thug
  • Want
  • Forever
  • Rap

• Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Music
  • God
  • Art

• 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.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Life
  • America
  • Architecture

• Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Work
  • Important
  • Family

• I think it's difficult to say what exactly made me become a successful DJ. It depends on so many different things. If I were given an award, I would thank my family, friends, Tiesto and the great team behind me for all their support and hard work. Without them, I wouldn't be where I am today.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Work
  • Great
  • Different

• I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine.

  

  Dawn French
  • People
  • Horse

• I think that the status that you have in life should be reflected in official documents. If you are married, fine, if you are living with someone, fine, if you are single, fine. We don't want to tell people how to live their lives.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Right now the institution of marriage feels very one-sided, and I want to live in a country where we all have equal rights. I have so many friends who are gays and lesbians who would so badly want to get married, that I wouldn't be able to sleep with myself if I got married before they could.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Country
  • Friends
  • Marriage

• Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary for people of every background. In that way, we see the growing up of the American food scene: that it's okay to be a regular person and be really into food.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • People
  • Up
  • American

• Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

  

  Darryl F. Zanuck
  • People
  • Night
  • Technology