Ian Schrager Quotes
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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When it comes down to it, Hillary Clinton will very much excite the Republican faithful to get out and work hard. I don't know if a similar case can be made if Obama is the candidate.
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'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
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Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.
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Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
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When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.
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In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.
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The way that we are going to solve social problems is by working with multiple different types of investing.
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I did a really good job of sticking to the tennis court.
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A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.
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When I am working on a movie, all I want to talk about is the movie. All I want to be with are the movie people. It's like a clan. If I'm asked to people's houses for dinner, I hate to go, because they'll talk about other things.
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People want to create something bigger for themselves, and making up drama that isn't there gives people the impression that they have haters. It's all for attention so it looks like they are important.
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Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class.
