George Cukor Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
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The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.
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I think that, as a white person stepping into doing any sort of anti-systematic-racism type of work, asking yourself, 'What is your intention?' needs to happen on a consistent basis. Check yourself. Check yourself. Check yourself, like, constantly.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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My mother is my hero.
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It's a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off marriage - for life!
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I think things will come once I get the respect that I deserve. Keeping my belt for a long time... Things will happen like normal. I can't force those things.
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There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.
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Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.
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The gay bunting erects his white crest, and gives utterance to the joy he feels in the presence of his brooding mate; the willow grouse on the rock crows his challenge aloud; each floweret, chilled by the night air, expands its pure petals; the gentle breeze shakes from the blades of grass the heavy dewdrops.
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When I was a player, I worried only about myself. Good money and easy work.
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What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.
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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
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I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.
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You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.
