Joseph Stefano Quotes
Hitch suggested a name actress to play Marion because the bigger the star the more unbelievable it would be that we would kill her.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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Over the years, I've learnt from co-actors, directors, technicians, and even from junior artists.
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Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing 'Harper Valley PTA' and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.
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I like Disney stuff. No-one looks at 'Toy Story' and says,' Oh, that's just for kids.' Why is it that games can only appeal to a certain audience, but movies and books - I mean, how many adults read 'Harry Potter?'
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You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.
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I have always said that after sport, I wanted a life, I wanted an opportunity, I wanted to be able to do something. And if something happens - the economy falls out or the dollar is worthless, anything could happen - you have to be ready to work. And I'm ready.
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Financial risk is always associated with drug discovery. But the benefit that a blockbuster drug can bring to the business can be phenomenal if you can take that risk.
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I'd grown up doing children's theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theater company.
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I grew up with reggae music.
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I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there.
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I used ribosomes from very, very robust bacteria under very, very active conditions and found a way - I actually took advantage of research done before me at the Weizmann, the same institute I am now - how to preserve their activity and their integrity while they crystallized.
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Let me speak to you as someone who is a republican, like Stuart Stevens who worked for Romney, right? He said if Barack Obama in '08 had said, oh, you know, Vladimir Putin is better than George W. Bush as a leader, he said republicans would have said Obama, get out of the race. You're a disgrace to the American people.
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How it could have been different, how different decisions and events could have taken place. I'm not sure how it would have played out differently. I just didn't want it to play out the way it did.
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These machines keep us alive, while other machines are coming to kill us. Interesting, isn't it? The power to give life, and the power to end it
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In terms of what I write about, I consider no subject too small. Often it's the small moments, that through the amplification of poetry, reveal the larger, more profound truths that we all come to recognize and treasure.
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Hitch suggested a name actress to play Marion because the bigger the star the more unbelievable it would be that we would kill her.
