Ernst Lubitsch Quotes
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Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.
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We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy?
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One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself.
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I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.
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The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.
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To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.
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A penny will not buy a penny postcard or a penny whistle or a single piece of penny candy. It will not even, if you're managing the U.S. Mint, buy a penny.
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Just because you're selling out shows doesn't mean you deserve better treatment than the person next door.
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Living without hate for people is almost impossible.
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Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.
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I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.
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I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.
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Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'
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The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every part I've played I've twisted around in my mind until I've made it into something of my own. Looking back over it, I didn't deliberately sit down and plan like that, but it does read like it.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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The great bulk of the public doesn't believe this president any more when he tries to gin up a phony crisis. They don't believe he'd have much of an idea of how to deal with a real one. Enough of the lies. Enough of the incompetence and failure.
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It felt amazing to be one of a handful working female directors in Hollywood.
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In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.
