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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Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.
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Our children are our sequels. Our parents are our prequels. All living beings are our equals.
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I was forgetting how it really was, I was remembering it through common, ordinary eyes, I was remembering it as the boy I was before, but now I remember that it wasn't me being weak or me being naked, or anything else that I should be ashamed of.
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I am more of an old black and white movies fan.
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My mother used to rock me - and she used big rocks.
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The first play I did was a funny one called 'The School for Wives', by Moliere. We were wearing the ugliest wigs and the worst costumes you can ever imagine to try to recreate 17th-century France in Singapore. But I got my first real pay cheque from that. I was very happy taking that cheque to the bank.
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There's nothing as real as money.
