David O. Selznick Quotes

I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions.

David O. Selznick

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• The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

  

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• Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.

  

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• I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.

  

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• Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.

  

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• We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

  

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• I think people think I'm a lot younger than I am because of how I look on screen.

  

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• Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.

  

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• Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.

  

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• For your information, I would like to ask a question.

  

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• The plan is to make money, and we know the fans are going to ask for mixtapes, and those mixtapes are going to hit. So when we put a tape out, we have more money coming in, that's why we work hard at it.

  

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• In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.

  

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• Telluride has an incredible history and reputation, and I've long known of it as a unique entity that makes a place for writers - one more aspect of this exceptional film festival in the Colorado Alps.

  

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• Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

  

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• The euro must be defended, or uncertainty about the European Union will be widespread.

  

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• 'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear.

  

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• I do not, therefore, need any penetrating acuteness to see what I have to do in order that my volition be morally good. Inexperienced in the course of the world, incapable of being prepared for whatever might come to pass in it, I ask myself only: can you also will that your maxim become a universal law?

  

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• I don’t know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I’ll be able to tell another. Living souls, you will see how alike they are.

  

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• We shall not hunt together again, my friend. Our first hunt was here - and our last … They were good days, Yes, they have been good days...

  

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• Morality in its noblest forms remains inexplicable unless one takes into account that power of growth in the human soul which has led generation after generation from lower religious and ethical standards to higher ones which often clash with worldly advantages.

  

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• When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

  

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• I've done yoga, and I want to start Pilates soon.

  

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• The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

  

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• I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions.

  

  David O. Selznick