George Clooney Quotes
It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period.
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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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The world is always in movement.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.
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An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.
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When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely out of the blue, but the fact I had a high profile certainly helped.
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What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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I lived in New York for seven years, although I was always in denial about it. Even though I had an apartment there, I always pretended I was just visiting. I do love New York. But I'm a Londoner at heart.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
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The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.
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If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.
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The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.
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It's quite stressful knowing that every time you walk out the door, someone is going to be giving you a very good look up and down, judging everything you wear.
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For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.
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The truth is, those who diligently seek to learn of Christ eventually will come to know Him. They will personally receive a divine portrait of the Master, although it most often comes in the form of a puzzle - one piece at a time.
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If we want parents to be discerning about what children are watching then we need to put stuff in there for them to watch, too.
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It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period.
