Harry Triguboff Quotes
The Chinese were good to us. The war years for us Russians in China were very good years.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.
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A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.
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I feel like if we can use the combination of basically data-driven hunches and bet on really first-class talent to deliver the shows, that I think we could do as well as the networks do, who basically have a 75 to 80 percent failure rate for new shows anyway - even after all that development and pilot work.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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I like the language in Proust but not the context.
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In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people.
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If Clinton is elected or if Trump is going to get elected, I think the polarization in Congress will be greater than ever. Nothing is going to get done. It is going to be so ugly, so partisan, so back-biting. Well what if you elect a couple of Libertarians?
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I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.
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I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader.
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One challenge in this industry is that you adopt a certain look for a movie, and then people don't get to see the movie for a year!
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What's right with America and what's right with Islam have a lot in common. At their highest levels, both worldviews reflect an enlightened recognition that all of humankind shares a common Creator - that we are, indeed, brothers and sisters.
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People talk about PlayStations, video games, social network and Twitter; I can't handle it.
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Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.
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I've got the best shoe guy in the business.
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It's a terrible poison, writing.
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The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.
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I think Charles Manson was a hair's breath away from just being a terrorist. He wanted to start a war, too.
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I have only recently got interested in film, and it is a strange way of working in many ways. But actually, when it is at its best, it's quite an extraordinary way of working between a director and an actor, to really explore an inner life.
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Every deal is a regulated deal. Regulators will tell you how to take your money home.
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The Chinese were good to us. The war years for us Russians in China were very good years.
