Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
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When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.
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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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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere.
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.
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My first job was cutting grass. In Miami, this grass grows everywhere. You just get the lawn mower out, walk down the neighborhood, cut grass.
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We must motivate ourselves to do our very best, and by our example lead others to do their best as well.
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But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
