Rainer Weiss Quotes
People say, 'I failed out of college! My life is over!' Well, it's not over. It depends on what you do with it.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
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Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
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I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.
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Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
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I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.
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Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
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What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
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Whatever you want to call it, they have all these names for these coverages, I've seen them. Like those linemen coming out to jam me on the line of scrimmage. A lot of crazy stuff.
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'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it.
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I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.
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If you have something important to say, Broadway and New York are great places to say it.
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I worked on a farm for a little bit.
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I love children.
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Television, as the most 'public' of media, has its limits.
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If I roll my eyes and mutter, if I clutch at my heart and scream in horror like a third-rate actress chewing up a mad scene, I do it in private and nobody sees but the bathroom mirror.
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I write both fiction and nonfiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes later.
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In 1975 Australia was producing things like Picnic at Hanging Rock, in other words films that I would consider still some of the finest products to come out of Australia. I think that our quality now is less than it was then.
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By all means, let someone else have Pearl Harbor.
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I would like to live longer, and I would like other people to live longer.
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People say, 'I failed out of college! My life is over!' Well, it's not over. It depends on what you do with it.
