Ernst Lubitsch Quotes
I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.
Quotes to Explore
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
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Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
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I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Twitter's more fast-paced. Instagram, it's more, like, lifestyle and posting very specific, cool pictures.
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Pictures can be devastating. Who allowed John Kerry to get himself photographed windsurfing in a flowered swimsuit? Anyone in the real world in that operation?
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I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
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All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.
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Stop taking pictures and start experiencing life.
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I don't have anything Olympic in our house - no pictures, none of that stuff. Consciously I do that. With 10 children, I don't want to hold that over their heads.
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When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.
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I don't like parties. If I did, there would be pictures of me more often in Gala magazine.
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Has set the standard for excellence in economic policy-making.
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I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.
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In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.
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With this case, we hope to set a new standard for Internet marketers and consumer research companies. Personal information secured through a promise of confidentiality must always remain confidential.
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Nobody rises above mediocrity unless they use the brains of other people.
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Never let the limitations or insecurities of others limit what is possible for you.
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I'm living up to my own self-critical standard of doing theater in a lead position, the way I feel like I should be doing it. People are liking it, and it's all working. Just that, in any actor's life, is profound. That's what I was enjoying with the process.
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Socialism, as I understand it, is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.
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If you desire ease, forsake learning.
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That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself.
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Children do not grow up all of a piece; look for the child of seven, especially to take many backward glances at the way he has come, while bounds and leaps unevenly ahead in his growth.
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I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.
