Robert Wise Quotes
Of all the stars whom I worked with, I think Steve knew better what worked for him on the screen than any other. He had such a sense of what he could register, and that helped a lot in terms of shaping the character and the script.
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A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.
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Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.
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None of our series are ever static in terms of the dates. We always have a range of flexibility to respond to whatever may or may not happen.
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
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The web has changed the way we organise information in a very clear way: from the boundaried, solid format of books and newspapers to something liquid and free-flowing, with limitless possibilities.
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The following Wednesday, I opted to go with Random House.
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Everybody's born to be different, that's the one thing that makes us the same.
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Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.
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My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.
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Of all the stars whom I worked with, I think Steve knew better what worked for him on the screen than any other. He had such a sense of what he could register, and that helped a lot in terms of shaping the character and the script.
