Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes
If your ambition comes at the price of an unbalanced life, that there's nothing else that gives you comfort but success, it's not worth it.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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I condemn any form of terrorism and especially the terrorism that would affect my country and me.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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People - and dogs - are dying to be trained.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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My buddy tells me a lot of interesting stories about what goes on in prison - it just makes my head spin about what they deal with on a day-to-day basis.
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Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
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And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
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I like an interesting movie even if it's controversial or offensive, depending on your taste.
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I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.
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People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
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It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
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When you were growing up, your mom and dad told you to look both ways before crossing the street or not to get into a car with a stranger. It's the same with the Internet. We have a big responsibility and a huge role in bringing all the stakeholders to the table - users, parents, educators, law enforcement, government organisations.
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The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
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If your ambition comes at the price of an unbalanced life, that there's nothing else that gives you comfort but success, it's not worth it.
