Michael Ovitz Quotes
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'
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I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
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I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
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You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
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The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.
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I have said publicly no option should be off the table, but I would certainly take nuclear weapons off the table.
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Just think about the game. Think about playing great, having a great time. Helping my team win.
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I want to know who is spending $1,000 on a sweater! That makes no sense!
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I was the female lead in a romantic comedy. It's a little indie film that we shot in China called 'America Town,' starring Daniel Henney and Bill Paxton. I actually had to speak Chinese in the film. It was funny because I found out I was doing the film and then a week later, I was in Shanghai.
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In some ways, in 'The Queen of the Night,' I'm writing about some of the experience that I had with 'Edinburgh' where I was entirely unable to speak about what had happened to me as a child, but I could read from the novel.
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I get along fine with the press.
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I don't care if I put people off.
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Making progress on longstanding challenges requires a different lens and a new approach.
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For me, it was a revelation. There, was revealed a completely different Anne to the child that I had lost. I had no idea of the depths of her thoughts and feelings.
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What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.
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I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was to me. Then, once I got the guitar going when I was a teenager, I set sail for the direction I've been in my whole life.
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That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
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The unknown is always interesting.
