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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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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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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At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.
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I feel like a lot of funders of documentaries today want to fund films that have a social message that is going to yield results.
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The camera looks into your soul.
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I've had some incredible moments in my life - thus far. I hope a lot more are coming.
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Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.
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We can't make movies without scripts, and there's no cost to writing a script, so my advice to newcomers is do it yourself: Write your own script, shoot your shorts, edit your shorts.
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I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.
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I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.
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And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound.
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I think one of the things about parents and children is there are the accidents of temperament. There's no guarantee that just because you are related you'll have anything in common.
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My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.
