Vincente Minnelli Quotes
American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
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I am healthy and happy.
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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Of course, a movie is in constant flux.
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I buy when other people are selling.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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I don't care if I get $50m to do a film.
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Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in my mind before I see first chapters, too. I usually begin with endings, with a sense of aftermath, of dust settling, of epilogue.
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I always felt like I needed to act. Not that I wanted to act, but I needed to. And I still feel that same way. There's an expression that I get to have in acting that I can't consciously express in my life. It has always defined me and it always will.
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In football, nothing is certain, so it's no problem to return to Corinthians.
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American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.
