Haskell Wexler Quotes

I'd say to anyone trying to break into the business: Don't just be interested in movies. Be interested in life. Be a person. Be in touch.

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• The people that are serving you gas, the people that are in your restaurants serving you, the firefighters, and police officers are members of the gay and lesbian community. They're members of our broader community.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Community
  • Gay

• Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Technology
  • Humanity
  • Poverty

• It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Law
  • Religion
  • Slavery

• I'm not sad at all about turning 40.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Sad
  • About
  • Turning

• In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Death
  • Try
  • Escape

• I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!

  

  Laura Linney
  • Love
  • Think
  • Father

• My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.

  

  Larry Page
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Treasure
  • Pirate
  • Island

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • First
  • Literary
  • Meant To Be

• I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • New
  • New York
  • Los Angeles

• Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Black
  • Rock
  • Tree

• Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.

  

  Walter Lang
  • God
  • Environment
  • Adaptation

• I can't stand recipes that don't have background.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Stand
  • Background
  • Recipes

• I was studying communications and acting, and I decided over the summer that I wanted to work on my acting skills and perform in a pageant. I didn't have any other way of practicing, so I entered the Miss Rhode Island pageant. I ended up wearing a dress that was a $20 rental. It was too short, and there was a hole in the back of it.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Up
  • Work
  • Summer

• For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Childhood
  • Short
  • Homework

• I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.

  

  Patch Adams
  • World
  • Love
  • Will

• I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on the books and I'd have to change my last or first name. I had played the character of Nathan Detroit, whom I liked very much, in 'Guys and Dolls,' so I took the name Nathan.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Character
  • Change
  • Name

• Equal Vision seems to be doing really well. A lot of these major labels are just imploding and becoming indie labels, anyway.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • Vision
  • Doing
  • Equal

• Our little visitor has just left us, and left us highly pleased with her; she is a nice, natural, open-hearted, affectionate girl, with all the ready civility which one sees in the best children in the present day; so unlike anything that I was myself at her age, that I am often all astonishment and shame.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Children
  • She
  • Age

• I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.

  

  Christopher Lee

• Honestly, I just have to do what's right for me, and what I would tell people is what I believe, which is that tolerance is very important.

  

  Martina McBride
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• I am thankful to whatever I have got in my life, but one thing which is always at the back of my mind is my dance academy. I would love to see my dance academy growing.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Dance

• I'd say to anyone trying to break into the business: Don't just be interested in movies. Be interested in life. Be a person. Be in touch.

  

  Haskell Wexler
  • Life
  • Business
  • Movies