Irving Layton Quotes
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Federal prosecutors want to indict Julian Assange for making public a great many classified documents.
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I'm not making films just to be bold.
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You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.
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I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
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The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
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More exposure has give to me more discipline because I am seeing that more people are wanting to observe what I am making/filming/singing; this does motivate me to make videos for every week.
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My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs.
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I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.
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Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.
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That three-foot putt is tough for me right now! I'm not making too many putts.
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As I had visualized, 'Heroine' is shaping up to be a very contemporary film with a different premise and strata. This film, like most of my other films, is a blend of facts and fiction. The film has a larger span, more characters, and costumes... a journey that revolves around an actress's life and the showbiz.
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No, I don’t understand him, but he is worth listening to.
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Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change?
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I wasn't the class clown. I wasn't that obvious. There would be a circle of guys, and they're watching the class clown. And I'm standing in the back, and I turn to the guy next to me and I say something funny to him, and he starts to laugh. And the guy next to him says, 'What did he say?'
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I am under no illusion that amending the Voting Rights Act in Congress will be easy, but with bipartisan calls for legislation to address it, I'm confident we are moving in the right direction.
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Discerning the will of God is a very tricky thing, partly because, you know, the little voice in my head can either be God's voice or it can be my own ego doing a magnificent impression of God's voice.
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Obviously when you're making music, you want it to get out to as many people as possible. You want to reach as many people as you can.
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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
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My process in making a music video is pretty much a formula of talking to the artist. I've never made a video where I didn't talk to the artist before I wrote the treatment. Basically, I enter into it knowing we are collaborators.
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No one was talking about price decreases, but that does happen in the industry to keep medicine affordable.
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See, I will always shop, and that's sort of a problem. Clothes are always exploding out of my closet!
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I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2.
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Idealist: a cynic in the making.
