Emmanuel Lewis Quotes
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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It's better to do a film that works.
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I love my work but do not know how I write it.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
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Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.
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Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
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Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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By necessity, budgets require hard choices.
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I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
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I've always looked over my shoulder, especially in my hometown.
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What I really would like to see is more female stories out there. Particularly older female stories, because women are predominantly ticket-buyers.
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I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.
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I used to hate performing in front of anybody, but I was forced to sing in front of family, at family gatherings. Then it slowly developed, and I started to love it.
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My mother and her five sisters have always been living examples of the great love that can exist among sisters - and in a large family.
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Michael is not only my friend, he's my family.
