Mike Binder Quotes
In another time, another world, each studio made 200 movies a year and had 20 executives. Today, a studio makes less than 20 movies a year and has 500 executives. They own too many parking decks and too many billboard companies. They're awash in overhead, and it's pinning them down, and they know it.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?
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I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
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A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.
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London 2012 was the biggest thing I will probably ever do, but I didn't realise it at the time!
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Language usage always has a political context.
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Sometimes, I probably do mourn the fact that I no longer make films.
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The future is out of my hands; it is in God's.
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I definitely want to have kids. I've grown up around lots of people who were having kids when I knew them, because a lot of them were a lot older than me. And I saw the wonderful change in them.
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I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
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His great passion for education and [making sure] people have an opportunity. Of course that's what came out of the George Mitchell Institute and his scholarships in those high schools.
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As I get older I perceive Life has its tail in its mouth.
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We know the president of the United States has no facts. No facts to back up his startling allegation that the former president of the United States, President Obama, wiretapped him in Trump Tower during the campaign.
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We're not going to put the cart before the horse and just think by sending more troops, we're automatically going to make Americans safe.
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The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies.
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From all over the planet they came…. They came in companies and alone, with money and without, knowing and naïve. They tore themselves from warm hearths and good homes, promising to return; they fled from cold hearts and bad debts, never to return. They were farmers and merchants and sailors and slaves and abolitionists and soldiers of fortune and ladies of the night. They jumped bail to start their journey, and jumped ship at journey’s end. They were the pillars of their communities, and their communities’ dregs…
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I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.
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People really seem to forget there's people in Bahrain or Saudi Arabia who are there for a year or whatever, ... In their hearts, they're there to protect the people of America and what we stand for.
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If there is one pleasure on earth which surpasses all others, it is leaving a play before the end. I might perhaps except the joy of taking tickets for a play, dining well, sitting on after dinner, and finally not going at all. That, of course, is very heaven.
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The healing power of music is vast. Music therapy is in its infancy in Western psychology. If we knew more, we'd be able to do amazing things, and maybe even make permanent changes in the brain's mysterious workings. With a simple song and four chords, you might be able to do something useful, even life-changing. With all the songs you know, you might be a virtual, veritable medicine chest for the right person.
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In another time, another world, each studio made 200 movies a year and had 20 executives. Today, a studio makes less than 20 movies a year and has 500 executives. They own too many parking decks and too many billboard companies. They're awash in overhead, and it's pinning them down, and they know it.
