George Cukor Quotes
It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
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I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to.
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The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
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Christ receives people; because of that mercy, conversion happens.
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Mostly in movies an actor has to come to a mark, an X, and deliver his line - but that's so artificial, that's not how people really behave.
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It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.
