George Mastras Quotes
I'm kind of an all-in person. If I'm going to direct I'm going to take the challenge on.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.
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'Freaky Ali' is not a heavy film. It's a simple but inspiring film. It will inspire those who want to go from zero to hundred. People who have made an effort to achieve success from nothing will be able to connect to the character.
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I originally just wanted to be an artist.
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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With publicity comes humiliation.
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Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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There is nothing wrong with a woman encouraging a man's advances, as long as they are in cash.
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I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.
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I don't subscribe to the thinking that being typecast is a bad thing.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.
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The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.
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Humility is truth.
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Yeah, I guess I'm not a particularly religious person, but I do really believe strongly that we all need to believe in something, and that's very personal to each one of us.
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For anyone going through a divorce or any other painful challenge, the first and most important recommendation I can make is to find some kind of spiritual and emotional support.
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I want to do roles that will challenge me. I'm definitely interested in period pieces. But I definitely don't want to limit myself. I'm very open to different roles.
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Yeah, but I have the box set out now.
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I'm kind of an all-in person. If I'm going to direct I'm going to take the challenge on.
