Joseph L. Mankiewicz Quotes
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
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Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.
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I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.
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Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
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Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.
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Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.
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I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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I am not a methodical singer. I don't follow any process or rules; what I follow is just my heart - whatever I experience, I just write and then compose it.
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I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.
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I played trumpet in the school bands. I learned things I liked to play on my trumpet, but I didn't learn why this note goes with this note and why it produces that sound. Or how to create tension in the composition.
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
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A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.
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Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.
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An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
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Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.
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When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.
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There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.
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I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?
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For someone to say I am overweight is completely ridiculous.
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I hit it off the end a little bit and it was a little whippy, ... There's so much tape on (the bat) sometimes you can't really tell if they're broken.
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I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.
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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.
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So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me.
