Brian De Palma Quotes
When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.
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To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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People think that I have this wonderful hourglass figure, but I owe that to designer Tadashi Shoji because he cuts for me really well.
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Bitcoin is here to stay. There would be a hacker uproar to anyone who attempted to take credit for the patent of cryptocurrency. And I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of hacker fury.
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We are like a traveling circus, our family! We sing, we dance, we do football, we do fashion.
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They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.
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I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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There are actors who aren't on the cover of magazines but still decide what work they want and when they want it. I want a family one day. So I dream of really being able to decide when to work and when not to.
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When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
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I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.
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I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.
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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
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I've never had as much success as when I say to myself, 'I get that. I know what the feelings that that character would be going through would be like. I can feel a through line from beginning to end.'
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The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
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American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.
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Everything I have today was because of the love of a woman.
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From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system.
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When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.
