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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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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I am from Mumbai. I studied at the Utpal Sanghvi School at Juhu and then went to the Mithibai College. I come from a business family, and I am the only son.
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My story starts at sea... a perilous voyage to an unknown land... a shipwreck... The wild waters roar and heave... The brave vessel is dashed all to pieces, and all the helpless souls within her drowned... all save one... a lady... whose soul is greater than the ocean... and her spirit stronger than the sea's embrace... Not for her a watery end, but a new life beginning on a stranger shore. It will be a love story... for she will be my heroine for all time. And her name will be... Viola.
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In a sense it's a lot crazier when you're on the road and it's a lot less stable, but it's actually really healthy for me because it keeps me from isolating, which I tend to do a lot.
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Baking may be regarded as a science, but it's the chemistry between the ingredients and the cook that gives desserts life. Baking is done out of love, to share with family and friends, to see them smile.
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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.
