Robert Zemeckis Quotes
Working with actors who are directors is magnificent. Because they understand the art form intimately, and they know exactly how everything works.
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Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.
Barton Gellman
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If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
V. S. Naipaul
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It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
M. Scott Peck
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Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
Iqbal Quadir
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I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.
Victoria Moran
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Baruch Spinoza
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Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
Walter Cronkite
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My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.
Vikas Swarup
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At school, I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking.
Candice Swanepoel
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I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.
Om Puri
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Something even minor I do is going to be reported because of things that have happened in the past. You have to be aware of that.
Patrick Kane
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I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.
Tao Lin
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
Madeleine Albright
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I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
Radha Mitchell
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I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
Zainab Salbi
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I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.
P. L. Travers
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There's no such thing as a healthy tan, and that's what people need to understand.
Gabrielle Union
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I'm restless and wild. I fall, but I try. I need someone to understand.
Kelly Clarkson
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The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I sing around the house, in the shower.
Aaron Neville
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Then there was sex, which, for me, was such a need. When I was younger, I had a need to have sex with everyone. I don't know where that was coming from, but there was such a need to connect physically - obviously, for me to connect physically to myself. There were times, like I say in the book, where you lay on top of me, when you push me down, when you're inside me.
Eve Ensler
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For the span of my memory, this has been a city of opposing wills.
Mari Evans
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Working with actors who are directors is magnificent. Because they understand the art form intimately, and they know exactly how everything works.
Robert Zemeckis