Oliver DeMille Quotes
The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.
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Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season... It's impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market.
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It doesn't matter to me if I'm in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what's working and what's not. And I see the movies that I'm in in the theater a lot.
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From Calcutta has gone forth a living stream of knowledge in many branches of study. It is inspiring to think of the long succession of scholars, both Indian and European, who have lived in this city, made it their own, and given it of their best.
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To be successful for a moment because of one movie doesn't mean anything.
Nastassja Kinski
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A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
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We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.
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My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. It's very abundant. The fuels are everywhere. There are problems with fusion.
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For a production that suggests a mysterious dreamscape, I have a particular affection for the Vivian Beaumont Theater. It is the largest dramatic space available in New York City in terms of plays, although musicals have been done there very successfully as well.
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I want to win medals for myself.
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As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.
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I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page.
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That was FedEx Field the way I sure remember it, ... We needed everything we could get today to win this game.'
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Here's a tip...If you leave a girl crying you're probably not doing your Don Juan routine right, asshole.
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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.
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It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going down an inclined plane - putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track.
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I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.
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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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I think that people have to just go with their gut and follow their passion if they're photographers.
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I think everything you are, everything that engages you, eventually comes to bear on the novel you write. I think the creative energy in novel writing, obviously, comes from tension. From trying to fuse. From trying to make coherent disparate things that might not at all seem to belong together within a narrative.
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The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.
