Joel Silver Quotes
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I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.
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There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.
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My own personal goal is I just hope to still write songs and kind of let that sustain me as a job. If I could never have a 9-to-5 job, and making a living doing this, it'd just be incredible.
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Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.
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The abortion industry can try to improve its 'messaging' all it wants. But unless abortion advocates change their devotion to abortion-on-demand, the only message Americans will receive is that the abortion industry is only really interested in improving its bottom line at the expense of the most defenseless among us.
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I'm attracted to mysterious men. Every woman can relate to that, right?
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The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.
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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.
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When I am shooting a film, and it has a big schedule, I make sure that I take a week off with the family. It gives you new energy.
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I'd love the opportunity to do something where I could really give my opinion, my feisty side - it'd be fun!
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These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.
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If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.
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Nike was the essence of sports, transcendence through sports.
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Nothing happens unless first we dream.
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Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.
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All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.
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I had to know if I could make it somewhere else. I did not want to go through the rest of my life wondering what might have been without putting myself to the test.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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For ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.
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I want an explosion the size of Cleveland.
