Joel Silver Quotes
I'm happy with my place in the firmament here. I like to produce movies and that's where I want to be.
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The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.
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Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
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No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
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I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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God is everywhere.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I actually have no style whatsoever. I'm the worst. I have people I talk to, and I say, 'Please tell me how to dress because I don't know what I'm doing.' The biggest thing for me is my mom. I'm like, 'Mom, do I look good?' If she says yes, I'm good to go.
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I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.
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I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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I sort of fall apart in terms of stamina after about 25 minutes!
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I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.
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I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.
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You are the oveja negre, no? The black sheep?
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The advice that I can give anyone wanting to be in the biz: do all the work, learn your craft. There are no shortcuts. If you stay with it, you will get an opportunity.
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Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good.
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The true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being in love with their destiny.
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I'm happy with my place in the firmament here. I like to produce movies and that's where I want to be.
