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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Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
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I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership.
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But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.
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One of many joyful moments with BB King was him letting me play 'Lucille.' ...The thrill will never be gone.
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When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.
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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.
