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.
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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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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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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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When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.
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Letters are things, not pictures of things.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Geniuses come in many shapes and colors, and they often run in packs. If you can find one, it may lead you to others. Collaborate with geniuses. Send them your spells. Look carefully at theirs. What could you do together? Combination is creation.
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I've always been a guy that liked to stay in control of my own destiny.
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When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
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When you start out as an actor, you read a script thinking of it at its best. But that's not usually the case in general, and usually what you have to do is you have to read a script and think of it at its worst. You read it going, "OK, how bad could this be?" first and foremost. You cannot make a good film out of a bad script. You can make a bad film out of a good script, but you can't make a good film out of a bad script.
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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.
