David O. Selznick Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
-
I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
-
I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.
-
All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
-
All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
-
In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
-
It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
-
The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
-
The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.
-
After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
-
Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.
-
I'm a runner first before anything else.
-
Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
-
The competition between me and Bill Gates, probably: Who can spend money more effectively that can do better philanthropy.
-
I like to impress myself when I dress.
-
What you wish to others, God wishes to you.
-
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
-
Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.
-
I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.
-
Perhaps as important is the relation between the existence of solutions to a competitive equilibrium and the problems of normative or welfare economics.
-
I was living in London and I thought, 'There's nothing here for me anymore.' I don't want to become this actor who's going to be doing this occasional good work in the theater and then ever diminishing bad television. I thought I'd rather do bad movies than bad television because you get more money for it.
-
I don't want to sound like I'm a special type of Russia hater. There are very few heads of state in Europe that would not like to have very good relations with Russia.
-
I didn't work with any of the beasts [ "Fantastic Beasts"], I didn't have much green screen, but I loved working on it. I'm excited to see it myself.
-
She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.
