William Friedkin Quotes
I believe today that there is no film and no shot in a film that is worth a squirrel getting a sprained ankle.
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If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
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What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
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Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.
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No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
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I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.
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Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.
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Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.
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I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that's not why I write.
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Today's today. Tomorrow we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.
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I stumbled into this business, I didn't train for it. I yelled 'Action!' on my first two movies before the camera was turned on.
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There is a false assumption about the Parti Quebecois that we don't know anything about the economy... Well that's a myth.
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Well, besides being entertained, I’d like to move them emotionally. I mean I really want to uplift them. I want to look down at the audience, and this is personal experiences now I’m going to tell you. It’s like you look down at the audience and see people smiling, crying, hugging each other. I want them on their way home to feel empowered like they can do anything.
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I believe today that there is no film and no shot in a film that is worth a squirrel getting a sprained ankle.
