Baran Odar Quotes
In the end, you as a director, of course, are the captain on the ship. You have to say, "Well, we're sailing to the left and not to the right." But, you always have to listen to everyone, because I'm not always right and other people have great ideas, too. I think that makes great moviemaking.
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?
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I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
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The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.
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We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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If you look hard enough, you'll find something good about me and say it.
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When we prolong negative behavior - the kind that hurts the people we love or the kind that hurts us in some way - we are leading a changeless life in the most hazardous manner. We are willfully choosing to be miserable and making others miserable, too.
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I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.
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I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.
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For anyone that's ever had a musical breakthrough in their career, it's always followed by the departure period right after.
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In the end, you as a director, of course, are the captain on the ship. You have to say, "Well, we're sailing to the left and not to the right." But, you always have to listen to everyone, because I'm not always right and other people have great ideas, too. I think that makes great moviemaking.
