Abigail Disney Quotes
When you make your first film at 47 and anybody but your mother goes to see it, to me, that's a miracle.
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I like going after good material, well-written material.
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans.
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I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.
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It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.
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Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.
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Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.
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What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.
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I was watching TV at age 9 or 10, and my mom said that I came from the front room and I told her that I want to act. And she said if you want to do this at 18, then you can. It was a very simple story, yet, I do not even remember the conversation that I had with my mother. Until she reminded me of the story many years later.
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Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.
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When you make your first film at 47 and anybody but your mother goes to see it, to me, that's a miracle.
