Eric Roth Quotes
Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.
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It is a great honor to become Executive Producer of 'Frontline.' David Fanning's mentorship and partnership over the past fifteen years has been extraordinary. I am inspired by his legacy and honored to guide 'Frontline's future.
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Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
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There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.'
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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To me, cinema is not a movie or a TV screen, and it's not a seat in a building versus one in your living room. It's the art of motion pictures.
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The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West.
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The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.
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I just think that pick-up lines in general are horrible. None of them work.
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But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
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The only way to thrive is to innovate. It's that simple.
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The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians.
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Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life.
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It's amazing to me: when people start their career, you write about maybe a couple of topics, and you find that as you grow older, a lot of those topics never resolve, because I think your job as a writer is to pose questions as you see them. I don't know if we're supposed to give answers to people, because I don't know if we have any.
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I learned by listening to other people sing and doing impressions of them. And there are things no one can ever teach you, like phrasing. By listening to Sinatra, for instance - you felt that everything he sang had happened in his life.
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Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.
