William Friedkin Quotes
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When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
Edgar Wright
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Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.
Ulrich Beck
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
Taylor Sheridan
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I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
P. J. Harvey
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I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. If I did, I probably would choose even more different roles than I've played.
Madeline Zima
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The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.
Samuel E. Morison
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
F. Murray Abraham
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
Gary Weiss
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Hamas has effectively kidnapped Gaza. Instead of turning it into the Singapore of the Middle East that was promised, they have turned it into a fortress of terror.
Naftali Bennett
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
Bayard Taylor
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I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
Ian Frazier
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Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.
Danica McKellar
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It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
Walter Russell Mead
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The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.
Cameron Monaghan
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Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
Ramana Maharshi
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
Ingmar Bergman
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Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.
Patina Miller
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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Islam is more than a religion, it's much more than a religion, it's a way of life, it is a one party political system that has a very elaborate legal system that can put you to death if you leave it.
Reza Aslan
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So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.
R. L. Stine
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Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too.
Hattie Morahan
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You lil Fraggle Rock, beat you wit a padded lock
Nicki Minaj
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We accepted the U.S. initiative, trying to be helpful in getting the peace process back on track. We are not willing in any way to renegotiate the initiative ... I think the clock is ticking very fast.
Hanan Ashrawi
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You are always cheating for the audience.
William Friedkin
