H. G. Bissinger Quotes
I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
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People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'
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I don't like to talk about girlfriend stuff. It's not necessary. I try to keep my relationships separate from everything else.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
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My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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If you give the audience what they want when they want how they want it, they won't steal it.
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When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
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Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
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People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
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When you see most companies get big, they want to shout about all they've done. But the consumer wants to know: 'What have you done for me lately?'
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My first introduction to pop music was probably the Osmonds, the Jackson 5, the BeeGees... Then the Beatles eventually. My father was pretty specific about what we listened to early on.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
