Joel Silver Quotes
I'm a filmmaker and I'm proud of the movies I've made. But in the background of my life I was also very involved in the creation of the sport.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.
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I am healthy and happy.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I don't think about fights that didn't happen.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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[ Serialism ] is like a sailless ship, driven out to sea by its captain, who has grown tired of its being used only as a pontoon, and who is privately convinced that by subjecting life aboard to the rules of an elaborate protocol, he will prevent the crew from thinking nostalgically either of their home port or of their ultimate destination....
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My grandmother had many children. She lost most. So when we came along, we were really special. I was the first grandchild that could see her spirit moving to a new generation.
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Merlin was five years of my life. I enjoyed every year, every day. I had a brilliant time on it. But I'd be lying if I didn't say I wanted to do more.
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I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.
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I'm a filmmaker and I'm proud of the movies I've made. But in the background of my life I was also very involved in the creation of the sport.
