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've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
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Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless - but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause.
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I see the role of the writer as creating a room with big windows and leaving the reader to imagine. It's a meeting on the page.
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I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.
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If it's tough believing what you believe, then maybe it's time to move. But if you are someone who militantly enforces your opinion about anything, then you need to get out of town.
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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.
