Dino De Laurentiis Quotes
After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.
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I love working the legislative process.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback...' to 'The Hulk.'
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to so so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.
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I'm the original.
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Clarice: getting cold feet There's still time!Toni: We can just call everyone and say we're terribly sorry but something came up and we have to leave town!Clarice: ...But what about the five gallons of baba ganoush, and all those tofu pups?Toni: Shit. I forgot. Well, I guess we'll just have to go through with it, then.
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And there's a feeling you get from making music that is unlike anything else in the world.
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People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.
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After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world.
