Jon Feltheimer Quotes
Although 'Mockingjay 2' grew $650 million at the worldwide box office, its domestic performance fell short of our expectations.
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I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has to decide who he wants to drive, so there is no secret anywhere. I am not concerned. It does not sit with my objectives to be competitive.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.
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I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.
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You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.
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I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am.
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
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As the youngest of three girls, most of my childhood works were revenge fantasies against my older sisters, so of course the sisters in 'Pretty Girls' share some similarities to my own.
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We had to leave Australia to become international stars.
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For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn't have done this without my family. Being the people that they are - they're crazy - made it possible for me to be crazy and to live a lifestyle of my own design.
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There has to be a way to live the life you're accustomed to and not sacrifice things. Americans are not very good about sacrificing.
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I remember returning to Bangalore after a few months of travel and seeing it as a first-world city, like New York or San Francisco. This may be obvious to some people, but I grew up in Delhi, and I had no experience of how someone from a 'Tier 2' city may view a 'Tier 1' city. You really do emigrate between worlds when you come from those towns.
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I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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My philosophy is generally to keep things as simple as possible.
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If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the new one that's got all this cool new stuff, but there might be a few bugs in it - people always want the new one. But I wouldn't want them to operate a plane I was on with software that happened to be the latest greatest release!
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When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.
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I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty.
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In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.
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I could have been better. That's my goal now, to be better.
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With a horse, if you make it easy for him to do the right thing, that's what he will logically do, but it's not necessarily true with the human. You will see humans that will beat their heads against the wall rather than open the door and walk through it.
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Although 'Mockingjay 2' grew $650 million at the worldwide box office, its domestic performance fell short of our expectations.
