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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The actresses I most admire are Cameron Diaz and Sofia Vergara. They're amazing comedic actresses and also gorgeous. That's the direction I'd like my career to go in.
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The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.
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A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's going, that's when people really want to get to know about you.
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Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany.
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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.
