Orson Pratt Quotes
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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I was an expert horseman.
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When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.
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I want to play interesting women.
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I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.
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The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I've been in. There are a few exceptions, but out of politeness I'm not going to mention them. If you don't have a few stinkers, you can't appreciate the good ones.
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I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.
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No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, pullin' up the laptop and watching. Can't watch it in front of the teammates, or else I'll get made fun of.
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More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life, how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates?
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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Men with purple hearts carry silver guns and they will kill a man for what his father has done. But what my father did, I don't live it: no, I am not him.
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Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.
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You can't save the world with music. But I can try. I have the same job as Bruce Springsteen. I have to go as far as I can with it.
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I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.
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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
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The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
