Douglas Sirk Quotes
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.
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When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.
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I wasn't, like, this top model; I was quietly doing my work, and when I became an actress, people started doing research, and everybody found out. People dug out photos, and suddenly people became interested - but no one was interested in my photos when I was a model.
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'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.
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I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn't mainstream.
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I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.
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The films I've done with all my heart have gone on to become huge hits. When I set out to do a 'mass masala' intending to please B and C centres, it bombs.
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The freeway is just like veins without a heart.
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You have to think with the heart.
