Nicholas Pileggi Quotes
Las Vegas is a city of kickbacks. A desert city of greased palms. A place where a $20 bill can buy approval, a $100 bill adulation and $1,000 canonization.Nicholas Pileggi
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Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.
Gary Sinise -
I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
Idina Menzel -
I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.
Sam Raimi -
We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded.
Calamity Jane -
I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.
Baz Luhrmann -
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
Ramakrishna
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The fact is that most 'Irish-Americans', in spite of dropping the word 'Irish' into half of all sentences, couldn't find Europe on an atlas, let alone Ireland.
Ian Watson -
I've got some good saints out there - that's right - that pray for me constantly. You've gotta have that! You do.
Whitney Houston -
If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life.
Igor Sikorsky -
One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential.
Brian Tracy -
One may aspire to succeed Chairman Greenspan but it will not be possible to replace him.
Ben Bernanke -
Because when I get to heaven, the first face that shall ever gladden my sight will be that of my Savior.
Fanny Crosby
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
Henry Ward Beecher -
They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust.
Muhammad Ali -
Where we can buy control, we like to buy control.
Arun Sarin -
I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?
C. S. Lewis -
I was in an adolescent psychology class at Citadel when the guy said, if you had a mother who was beaten, there's a great chance you'll beat your wife. And if you were beaten as a child, there's a terrific chance you're going to be a child-beater.
Terry Gross -
You can tell I'm not too bashful about some of my feelings.
Buzz Aldrin