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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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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Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.
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Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance.
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In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours - one hour for flying and one hour to get to the airport.
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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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Like the adolescent, the artist is a dreamer and a revolutionary; like the adolescent, he often finds his accomplishment inadequate to his imaginings. But his dream, setting him apart, helps him to escape the burden of the real.
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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.
