Joseph L. Mankiewicz Quotes
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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As a brand, Ahla is one of Strauss-Elite's strongest. But we need to do a lot of marketing in order to regain market leadership. I have no doubt that we will do that, even if it takes time.
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I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
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Our country has often stood like a solid rock in the face of common danger, and there is a deep underlying unity which runs like a golden thread through all our seeming diversity.
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God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.
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If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.
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People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.
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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
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It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?
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Saving animals is as simple as choosing synthetic alternatives instead of real fur.
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If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.
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I know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.
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Men learn to call pain 'glory'; women learn to call the police.
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You are my fav'rite star, My haven in heaven above, You are ev'rything I love.
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I've been to location shoots in Mexico before, and everyone ends up getting sick.
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Dwight Eisenhower warned American citizens at the end of his presidency about the implications of the military-industrial complex and its influence over government. We have now gone well beyond any of the wildest imaginations that could have entered Eisenhower's mind.
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I'm just growing old, darling. I don't know about gracefully.
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Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
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When I come clean about my brokenness, others catch glimpses of how the real grace of a real God works in the messy life of a real person.
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Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.
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There's nothing as real as money.
