David O. Selznick Quotes
If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract.
Quotes to Explore
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I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.
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You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.
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What's great about working on a sitcom is that I spend so much time with people who are in other fields as well, such as writing, directing, and/or camera operating. Being on set is like being on a playground. I go from one thing to the next, and I've learned so much and hope to continue learning.
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I love sweets. Like, every week of my life, I've had a cheat day.
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The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.
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The European Union will never see America, or an American president, as a risk.
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How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the reader, the last shot at 'nailing' it. I love to write ending lines; usually, I know them first and write toward them, but if I knew how they came to me, I wouldn't tell.
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Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
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I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so long ago that my dream cast was Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, and Chris Rock. That would have been cool. Now, a lot of time has passed, and there are a lot of young funny people.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
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I looked at but was not allowed to touch Ai Weiwei's 'Sunflower Seeds' at the Tate. The film of making them was really moving.
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Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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Mmmm... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has happened and you try to explain it to someone else and end up saying, 'You had to be there.'
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It is true that women in Paris never put on make-up. It shocked me when I first got there – then I realised how much I liked it.
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It's unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injuries to not happen.
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I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.
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Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
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To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.
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How to forgive a murderer? First, by differentiating his sufferings from his exploitation of death to ease them. For his sufferings - greed, jealousy, frustration - he will need reeducation, support and, compassion. For our outrage about murder, we need to examine deeply our faith in death. As long as we collectively believe that death has power over life, we will spawn deluded, self-appointed little gods who want that power.
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Never marry because it seems like what you should do.
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Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.
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If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract.
