Ric Keller Quotes
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Low budget movies make lots of money.
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Don't spend more than 10% of your marketing/PR budget on a trailer. Trailers have to be marketed, too. So, far too many authors wind up marketing their trailers instead of their books.
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You will never see me dancing around the trees, chasing a heroine; I will never do films, no matter what the budget, for the heck of it.
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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
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The human and environmental devastation caused by nuclear weapons - whether by testing, mistake or malice - is the very reason we need to eliminate them altogether.
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It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit.
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You can find a lot of reasonable buys at Wal-Mart. But one key to making it on a budget is by donating your time and labor to the project. Do-it-yourself projects will always help you save.
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A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
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I was able to promote a strong defense budget when it could have been cut a lot more severely.
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I am ably balancing big and small films. With every big film I do, I try to take up films that are high on content and small on budget.
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The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget.
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The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaida, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally intense focus on one purported ally: Pakistan.
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Every line in the government's budget has its own constituency.
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I played many sports, but when that golf bug hit me, it was permanent.
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Sex is not some sort of pristine, reverent ritual. You want reverent and pristine, go to church.
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and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.
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Adversities are temporary. What is permanent is what we become by the way we react to them.
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...this blessing of loneliness was not really loneliness. Real loneliness was something unendurable. What one wanted when exhausted by the noise and impact of physical bodies was not no people but disembodied people; all those denizens of beloved books who could be taken to one's heart and put away again, in silence, and with no hurt feelings.
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Working from home as a mother is the worst of everything. You don't have clear boundaries. The kids can get used to you going to work; they can't get used to you ignoring them. And work sometimes gets the message you're not as committed.
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I never set out to do this; I never set out to say, 'Can I break this record?' Then all of a sudden, the preparations made for the celebration put pressure on me. I said, 'Okay, I have to get there.' After 2,130, there was sort of a realization it was a foregone conclusion you're going to play tomorrow.
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I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.
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While our budget shortfall is temporary, ruining pristine national lands is permanent.
