Buck Henry (Henry Zuckerman) Quotes
We all were there for the readings, the screen tests, and we knew. We knew Dustin was the guy right away.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
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I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.
Ford Frick
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
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I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that stigma anymore. I think that what's harder is to be a woman, not to be a Latina.
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This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.
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Global sustainability is now the only avenue to future inclusive progress that can deliver the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris climate agreement.
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Jai jaigarvi Gujarat mantra jeevant karne ke liye hame shanti ka marg hi chahiye. In order to give life to the mantra of Jai Garvi Gujarat, we need to follow the path of peace.
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Americans are hungry for change both at home and in our relations with the rest of the world.
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Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
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Woody is the guy who made me want to be a comic. I was in heaven and couldn't stop smiling because he was my idle and 29 years after seeing Take the Money and Run, I was working for him.
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We all were there for the readings, the screen tests, and we knew. We knew Dustin was the guy right away.
