John Milton Quotes
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
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We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.
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I like the lasso of truth. There is something so beautiful about the fact that people have to tell the truth when they have the lasso around them. And it's not too violent.
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I took a 51 day trip through Asia; 12 countries and 26 cities. I traveled for 51 days. So, it was everywhere from Sri Lanka and that all the way to Japan, where we ended it.
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For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.
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One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
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The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
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I want people to know their palate is a snowflake. We all like different things. Why should we all have the same taste in wines?
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If you desire ease, forsake learning.
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The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.
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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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I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.
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People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.
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The hardest thing about writing a script is you finish it, but it doesn't mean anything. It's not like a novel or short story - a script is meant to be made into a movie.
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The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've got a great story.'
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It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.
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I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade!
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It's wonderful to play a villain who gets a laugh or to stop a comedy dead in its tracks with a touching moment. It's kind of like a symphony that has very different movements.
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I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously … I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird.
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You have to look closely
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They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on the Oscars show. It's the biggest show in the world.
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If we can predict successfully on the basis of a certain explanation, we have good reason, and perhaps the best of reason, for accepting the explanation.
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That old man eloquent.
