Robert Wise Quotes
My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.
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Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?
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My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
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Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.
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'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
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We should be individualizing instruction, utilizing that data to actually give teachers the tools necessary to meet the needs of a very diverse group of kids which exists in every class.
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He Corot is always the strongest, he has foreseen everything.
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Gassoon, for all his lore, subscribed to a common fallacy: he assumed that all those whom he encountered appraised him in the same terms as he did himself.
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Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe.
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If you're in the game long enough, you're going to be the toast of the town one day, and the next day you'll be toast.
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Remember this about the Korean War: The men were drafted; the women volunteered.
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Carrie Fisher will always be an icon as Leia, but also as Carrie. She will live on forever.
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At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.
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Keanu has such generosity and intelligence, not to mention a warmth that I'm eager to tap into. We're all incredibly excited that he's agreed to help us bring 'To the Bone' to life.
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I don't want to be that guy on some set he doesn't want to be on. It just bums everybody out.
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The great saints were always great innovators... They had to be very strong people... principled people. And, apart from their principles, with great tenacity they had to have great reserves of patience.
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Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.
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My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.
