Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.Bret Easton Ellis
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I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
Zooey Deschanel -
I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
J. C. Chandor -
And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.
Lance Ito -
Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
Saint Augustine -
I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
Tavi Gevinson -
We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
Kage Baker
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As a child growing up, it's going to be what you're going to remember most. What you liked or not liked then is going to define who you are at the table!
Daniel Boulud -
My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.
Victoria Aveyard -
Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.
Venus Williams -
I went to Yugoslavia to make a movie. People saw me there and asked me to do a movie in Germany. And that led to a movie in Italy. Before I knew it, I was in Europe for most of the next 10 years.
Edd Byrnes -
I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.
Edmund Phelps -
I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.
Larry David
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Trump can spend virtually an unlimited amount of his own money on this election, which makes him unlike any of the other candidates in the race. So those who oppose him will have to work very hard to make sure he doesn't win.
J. B. Pritzker -
Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.
Val Kilmer -
I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn't fit all my fifties.' I mean - really. Shut up.
Olivia Colman -
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Dag Hammarskjold -
I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.
Nadine Velazquez -
I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.
Tatum O'Neal
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I grew up listening to English music.
Ryan Tedder OneRepublic -
Radio was always a fun, geeky thing to be a fan of - the history of radio, where it is, and where it's going - but it was really also a pretty easy job.
Elvis Duran -
Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.
Harold Ross -
With everything I do, I just try to be myself.
Kevin Durant -
Life for the Christian is a dialogue with God.
J. H. Oldham -
Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.
Bret Easton Ellis