David O. Selznick Quotes
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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.
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I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
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I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.
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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.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
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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.
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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The competition between me and Bill Gates, probably: Who can spend money more effectively that can do better philanthropy.
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I like to impress myself when I dress.
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What you wish to others, God wishes to you.
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
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Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.
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My role in the White House was grossly exaggerated by the press. Fortunately for the American people, when the president had to make a critical economic decision or a decision on a weapons system, he did not turn to me and say, 'Hamilton, what in the hell do I do?'
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This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.
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Everything mortal has moments immortal.
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The engine is the heart of an aeroplane, but the pilot is its soul.
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I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter.
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I'm enjoying the opportunity that 'Parks And Recreation' affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands.
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She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.
