George Cukor Quotes
I suppose they call me a woman's director because there were all these movie queens in the old days, and I directed most of them. But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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I'm not somebody who gets teared up or anything, but I still look up at the stars, and it gives me hope, and it gives me energy. I think one of the things that we have to think about it is, we are all a part of this universe.
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me – and it was such a backhanded compliment – they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'
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My mother was predominately a stay-at-home mom.
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It's not the average people that come to my show.
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I've got a soft spot for true individuals.
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You're made aware of what the industry is and what you need to conform to; I don't fit that, and I'm never going to.
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I think to this day, 'Superman/Wonder Woman' is probably one of the trickiest things I've been working on. It's like being asked to write a 'Star Wars' movie or something like that. You don't know how you're going to handle it; you don't know if you can. You don't know if you should be the guy.
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I suppose they call me a woman's director because there were all these movie queens in the old days, and I directed most of them. But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.
