David O. Selznick Quotes
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.
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I turned down a lot of films.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
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A lot of people have told me they have mothers like my mother. I seriously doubt it.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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Say yes to everything.
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The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
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I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.
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I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
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And sometimes when you're onYou're really fucking onAnd your friends they sing along And they love youBut the lows are so extremeThat the good seems fucking cheapAnd it teases you for weeks in its absence
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What you eat matters. It influences the quality of your life.
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If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
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Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
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Maybe it sounds like I'm splitting hairs here but I don't wanna perform for a living, I wanna live for a living.
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At this rate, I'll live forever.
