Darryl F. Zanuck Quotes
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
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In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
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Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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It doesn't matter to me if I'm in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what's working and what's not. And I see the movies that I'm in in the theater a lot.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.
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The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I worked at a hospital parking cars and getting folks in and out of the hospital as they would come in for their appointments.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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Like all boys my age, I was an idiot when it came to women.
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I could put you in a condo, all the way up in Toronto
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My life changed because Bruce Springsteen got on a mic in front of me.
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I just think it's strange when people say, "There is no God." Because I feel so connected to people and things that I just can't deny that there's a God who wants us to tell good stories and be the best we can be and forgive and be forgiven, even if we're not the best we can be. I really believe innately that we do the best we can.
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Writers are idiots with Underwoods.
