Joseph L. Mankiewicz Quotes
The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes.
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Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party.
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The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.
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Al Jazeera is a representation of, you know, diversity in the Arab world. In our newsroom, we have every single nationality, we have every single, you know, ideology, we have every single background. However, when it comes to the screen, we have one code of ethics and one code of conduct.
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We wanted to make a wearable of tomorrow that is designed for everyone. I can proudly say Galaxy Gear is tomorrow's state of the art.
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I love my life. I'm very fortunate for the opportunities that I have and whatever, but I haven't got to the level where people are interested in where I walk my dog or anything like that, which is fine by me.
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Here is what is needed for Occupy Wall Street to become a force for change: a clear, and clearly expressed, objective. Or two.
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Work, alternated with needful rest, is the salvation of man or woman.
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I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.
