Paul Feig Quotes
As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Some films shouldn't be remade.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
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I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.
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I have a very positive outlook.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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I love being as bad as possible! You've got to love a bad girl. Look at 'Gone With the Wind,' Scarlett O'Hara - total bad girl, but you love her.
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What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.
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Every person in the organization must change inside their hearts and minds, so that they themselves become principle centred.
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When you start to have success, people look at you differently and expect more from you. With that comes a lot of pressure to perform, so it can be a little overwhelming.
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As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.
