Brian De Palma Quotes
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Politics is the art of achieving political goals - of achieving what is possible in a given situation - that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
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I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying.
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I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'
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The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
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It was sort of his 'Brando' moment - his very 'method' moment. He just absorbed it and continued on.
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Working with Jon Hamm was super-fun because he's a brilliant actor and he's very kind. I would hang around sets for scenes that I wasn't even in because I wanted to watch how he worked.
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It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.
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By any measure, NBC is a corporation.
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Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.
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It's much easier to fail when you're in the pilot, early stage, when it's less expensive and you're exploring than when you're way out the door and you've spent all this money. Industry is smart: structured to have skunkworks and pilot phases.
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We appear to have form, but we are like a whirlpool. We appear to have form, but we are just whirling electrons.
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It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.
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I don't see scarey films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.
