Joseph L. Mankiewicz Quotes
The good dialogue writer is the one who can give you the impression of real speech.
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Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.
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Hugo Boss is my kind of label.
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Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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Oklahoma is very entrepreneurial.
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I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it.
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Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.
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It's always hard to break an independent picture from the pack.
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Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.
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I never wanted to be a dancer. I was too big, I was too slow. I remember not liking it. Later on, when I came to the United States, I realized I had a skill, and when you come to this country, you realize if you have a skill and a determination, you can do anything.
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Being a father is just wonderful.
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I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.
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I've got a fantastic life. I enjoy what I do for a living. I see the blessings; I'm not blind.
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I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances.
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Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.
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To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.
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A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
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There is a triple layer of jargon when writing about climate change. You have the scientists, who are very cautious now because of the amount of climate denial. Then you have the U.N. jargon - I had to carry around a glossary of terms. It was like an alphabet soup.
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Sometimes imagine that I may have felt that I applied a relieving pressure on a life as a benevolent act, in that the subjects were ultimately free from life’s pain.
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I have the impression that every time I'm heartbroken, I leave a bit of myself behind. I am the believer. I go back and do the same mistakes over and over again and sign them proudly.
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Truthful speech provides, in the sphere of interpersonal communication, a parallel to wisdom in the sphere of private understanding.
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I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field I was in, I didn't meet many intellectual people anyway. I always had this dream of meeting an artist, an artist girl who would be like me. And I thought it was a myth, but then I met Yoko and that was it.
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Jessie J's a funny, funny woman. What she does is she reels you in.
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The good dialogue writer is the one who can give you the impression of real speech.
