Ernst Lubitsch Quotes
Any good movie is filled with secrets. If a director doesn't leave anything unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture's unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture is good, it's mysterious, with things unsaid.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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The law doesn't create a right.
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Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here.
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My father is from Jamaica, and as a child I spent many holidays there. I remember the weight and drenching wetness of that hot rain, as I experienced it in my childhood, not only for itself, but for what it represented for me.
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Well, thank you and that's for them, but for me, I want to look back at a body of work where when you do the research and you explore the psyche of a character, where she's been, where she is and where she's going.
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Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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I would do 'John Carter' again tomorrow. I'm very proud of 'John Carter.' Box office doesn't validate me as a person, or as an actor.
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If we were to inspect ourselves or members of our family and our friends, we would see that we don't really have to go all the way overseas to be mystified - we can be mystified right at home.
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Sometimes, I probably do mourn the fact that I no longer make films.
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I can't stress how much my daughter is an inspiration to stay sober. When I come home and she opens those big blue eyes at me, it's the most amazing feeling I could ever feel.
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Access to quality, affordable health care is particularly important here in Maine, where many of us own small businesses or are self-employed.
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Through historical accident, we've ended up with a global network that pretty much allows anybody to communicate with anyone else at any time.
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I was always told that I'd have to do a movie with a white guy in order to get the money. That's the way it was. That made me feel that I should have chosen some other profession, so I could have gotten my just deserts.
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Any good movie is filled with secrets. If a director doesn't leave anything unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture's unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture is good, it's mysterious, with things unsaid.
