Joel Silver Quotes
The action genre is kind of designed for a young male audience. But we found on 'The Matrix' that we hit the Valhalla of movie making, which is the four quadrant audience - the young male audience, the older male audience, the young female audience and the older female audience.
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I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
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Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.
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Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
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The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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The writer is all alone.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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Sexual freedom, sexual liberation. A modern delusion. We are hierarchical animals. Sweep one hierarchy away, and another will take its place, perhaps less palatable than the first.
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Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was a gross insult.
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Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.
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Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys' choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much.
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War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women.
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The action genre is kind of designed for a young male audience. But we found on 'The Matrix' that we hit the Valhalla of movie making, which is the four quadrant audience - the young male audience, the older male audience, the young female audience and the older female audience.
