James Mattis Quotes
It's a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don't sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day.
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I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.
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Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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Everything is designed to help you sell out.
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I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.
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If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.
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I enjoy music so much; it's such a passion in my life, and I hope that comes across.
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It's always a little bit personal when your work is cut down for whatever reason.
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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
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Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.
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I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.
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Most of the Jewish refugees, stripped of their considerable possessions, came to Israel. They were welcomed by the Jewish state. They were given shelter and support, and they were integrated into Israeli society together with half a million survivors of the European Holocaust.
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When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.
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I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.
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We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.
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In terms of aesthetics, I probably look better than I did when I played.
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My commitment to refugees comes from a very personal place.
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If you're old enough to father a child, then you're old enough to accept financial responsibility for that child. If you don't want your embarrassing, unlawful, and irresponsible behavior going viral, man up and pay up.
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I came to New York in 1948 at 19, after one term at Harvard. Well, Harvard wasn't for me at all.
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Normally my process is to sit in a room and read a script and talk about it and ask questions and just create a dialogue. That goes all the way through shooting. All kinds of thoughts and ideas can find their way in there. As long as you're all on - We're just all trying to tell the story so my job as a director is just to find out what this film wants to be based on, it's just words on a page at some point but then it just needs to go to some level of believable storytelling. I'm discovering the film as I make it, to some degree.
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But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.
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It's a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don't sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day.
