Ivan Reitman Quotes
The real trick for me as a director is to make sure that people don't start pushing because the harder you push as a perform the less funny it becomes.
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When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.
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When Peyton went into the game and remained the starter, it was OK with me because our team was winning games. We won a championship.
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We are growing both in the U.S. and in India, and all our business plans are made accordingly. So we are expanding both in U.S. and in India.
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I will just think, why am I singing? Then I will know everything I need to know about what I'm feeling.
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Hannah leaned against the wall. "Mind if I call shotgun?" Since you're carrying one? Feel free.
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Narratives are not fixed. We change our narratives for ourselves and we change them not necessarily deliberately. In other words, some people do, some people will constantly reconstruct their biography for external purposes, it's a very interesting political ploy.
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As kids, we traded 'I like Ike' and 'All the way with Adlai' buttons in elementary school.
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I like to hike and play with my dogs and spend time with my family. We go out to family dinners a lot.
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The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.
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The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects . . .
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To know others is to have knowledge. To know yourself is to be enlightened.
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History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality!
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There's no such thing as a bad Picasso, but some are less good than others.
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Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.
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I cannot agree with those who think of the Bill of Rights as an 18th century straitjacket, unsuited for this age...The evils it guards against are not only old, they are with us now, they exist today.
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Real equality in films is going to take time and will directly reflect our society. So ladies, please speak up at home, at work, at school, everywhere. As more women continue to find their place in Hollywood we have to keep pushing for more dynamic and strong women's roles.
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It's nice to get under par and play with house money for a change. You can love a place, but you still have to perform.
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I believe that being dependent makes you more vulnerable. I believe work is the greatest gift you will ever receive.
