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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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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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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There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.
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Something different happens to my brain when I put pen to paper: the pace of writing or drawing slows you down and gives you more time for thoughts to come in.
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I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV.
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Terrorists convince thousands of people to kill themselves in the name of God. I can't convince two of my friends to help me move.
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WHILE I THINK the reasons for postmortems are compelling, I know that most people still resist them. So I want to share some techniques that can help managers get the most out of them. First of all, vary the way you conduct them. By definition, postmortems are supposed to be about lessons learned, so if you repeat the same format, you tend to uncover the same lessons, which isn’t much help to anyone.
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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.
