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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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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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'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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I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.
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Yes, I certainly look for strong characters - whether that means they're strong in their vulnerability or strong in the way they might be attractive to lots of blokes.
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It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.
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I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.
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The worst thing a man can ever do is kiss me on the first date.
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The older you get, the easier it is to spot the phonies. And I just think, how unpleasant for them.
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Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.
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No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.
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When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself.
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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.
