David Geffen Quotes
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You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
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As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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Working is hard and distracts from having fun.
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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
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I'm sure lots of actors and creative people go through this, where you have some weeks where it's all going according to plan and some weeks where you're super frustrated.
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At age 26, I was chairman of UB Group but living like a 26-year-old. I lived my age. Which youngster doesn't like a Ferrari? Which youngster doesn't like a good time?... but my contemporaries were R. S. Goenka and Dhirubhai Ambani, captains of the industry but twice my age. You wouldn't necessarily expect them to be driving around in Ferraris.
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If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
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I find celebrity really scary.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
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If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
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If you want to play it safe, mix a lot of colors in the same tone and that is such an easy way to feel modern and feel a little confident.
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We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.
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Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
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After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
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Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television - or just written.
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When you're spending eight to 10 hours out there, the homeless guy is no longer homeless; it's Dave. They become people to you. I think we're really good in this country about saying that they're homeless and, therefore, they don't exist.
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Mumbling priests swinging stick cans on their chains and even witch doctors conjuring up curses with a well-buried elephant tooth have a better sense of their places in the world. They know this universe is brimming with magic, with life and riddles and ironies. They know that the world might eat them, and no encyclopedia could stop it.
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Broke is a Hollywood term!
