William Friedkin Quotes
I'm not a fan of Star Wars. That is not for me. That is for my nephews and nieces. I don't get it.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
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People always ask me, 'Is there a rivalry between the Nickelodeon and Disney stars? Do you guys hate each other?' Like everyone has to be on one team. If you're a Selena Gomez fan, you can't be a Victoria Justice fan. We're both half-Latin, and people put us in the same category.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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Guitar Hero has been so successful that a lot of people were questioning how it was possible to innovate on the most successful franchise of its kind.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
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As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.
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It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
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If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.
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How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
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Let's set aside political gamesmanship and work together for the sake of our children.
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I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
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There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.
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A Reagan appointee, Justice Kennedy is no liberal, as he has shown on issues from affirmative action to corporate campaign spending. But he has repeatedly sided with gay litigants before the court.
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
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I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustrations because I can't work with a certain director because it's a big studio movie, and I don't have enough of a studio profile? The answer is yes. But generall... generally, I have the career I have chosen myself.
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People forget that although we can pinpoint the price, we can only guess at future earnings. The past isn't much help: It simply tells whether a market was pricey or cheap.
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So now I know. I fear the unknown so deeply that I'd rather repeat the same heart-breaking pattern than face something or someone I can't predict.
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Putin's Russia is our adversary and moral opposite. It is committed to the destruction of the post-war, rule-based world order built on American leadership and the primacy of our political and economic values.
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Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.
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If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.
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I'm not a fan of Star Wars. That is not for me. That is for my nephews and nieces. I don't get it.
