Darryl F. Zanuck Quotes
Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.
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I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.
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That's hot.
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The first matter that the slave will be brought to account for on the Day of Judgment is the prayer. If it is sound, then the rest of his deeds will be sound. And if it is bad, then the rest of his deeds will be bad.
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I got around a lot, and lots of people talked to me. I salted down stories by the barrel load.
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It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you won't get far. Likewise for helping those in line behind you. I take seriously my role as a mentor to young female filmmakers - I make sure my time is tithed.
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I mean, if cans can be recycled, why not spirits?
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The short-term vision is: I research on something which I can use tomorrow, and for some politicians it is even better if it's today. But if you do this, you can only do targeted research. If you only do targeted research, you lose the side-routes.
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Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.
