George Clooney Quotes
I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
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If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.
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The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
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The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.
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I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
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'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.
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I have 250 contacts, employees, and investors who, anytime they come across something relevant, will share it with me. I wake up to 10-15 links that people have explicitly recommended for me. I don't have to look for news anymore; it flows to me.
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If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.
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'Homeland' is great at challenging our preconceived ideas.
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If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
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It's Teach For America's responsibility to ensure that all alumni know their voices are heard and valued, and to surface the range of opinion they represent.
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I want to tell everybody that you won't hear me trying to pop bottles in the club and all that kind of stuff. It's just not me and I think as long as you stay within your element and your age bracket, sure you're going a couple of young folks and teens, but that's not who I'm focused on. I'm really not. I love whoever supports, but I'm just not going to try and go back there because times have changed. If you don't move with the times, you'll get left off. I'm trying to change with the times.
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What I have to work with is the life that's ahead of me right this minute.
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I really love 'Dexter.' I'd like to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' or 'Breaking Bad'.
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I've always found when I'm healthy and happy I perform the best, not necessarily when I've done the most training.
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I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.
