David O. Selznick Quotes
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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If you go to a paintball subreddit, paintball companies can advertise to you.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
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I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.
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When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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I was pretty young when I decided I wanted to, well, more so be a singer. I started singing in church in my hometown, East Orange, New Jersey. I knew when I was about five or six that I wanted to be a performer.
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It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.
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But I like to go to movies with my son because it's still fun; it reminds me of why I make movies.
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I'm aware of how lucky I am. Being able to make pretty good money, and get to do a lot of fun work, and at the same time I'm not besieged by photographers.
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I hold a mini-New Year's Eve party each year with my son Ronan, and we make pigs in a blanket. They are delicious!
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It's all right; it's not so much fun any more.
