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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We are all so busy and constantly trying to save time and balance everything.
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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 got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you'd do the same thing.
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When I became a 'rock musician,' I assumed pop music was easy to write and that interesting rock music, or alternative music, was hard. It was only later I realised that writing a pop song is the hardest thing musically.
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I just don't fit into the box.
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We keep what is valuable to us, what we cherish.
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Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.
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There's nothing as real as money.
