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 think we have the best women's division on Smackdown Live. But, I miss Charlotte like a son of a gun. She's my favorite person to be in the ring with. She's the most incredible talent, and she keeps improving. When you've got a talent like that who's always stepping up their game, it always keeps you stepping up your game.
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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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My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.
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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 started going to exhibitions in Switzerland when I was 10 or 11. As a schoolboy, I would go every afternoon to see the long, thin figures of Giacometti.
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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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If you work in a home office, you can likely write off that space, as long as you use it only for work.
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Find combinations of flavors you love and buy the best quality ingredients you can afford. Your food is only going to be as good as the sum of its parts, like anything else.
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There are still civil rights issues. There are still people who can't be visited by their spouse in the hospital because they're gay. These are humanitarian issues. At the end of the day, all you want is for people to be happy in the pursuit of life, love and liberty.
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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.
