Sammy Cahn Quotes
The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
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A loving mother–son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me – when I wasn't saying it to her.
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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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Having an understanding of what's possible also makes me redouble my efforts to fight those who stand in the way of doing the things that my constituents and the country would want to get done.
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I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.
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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.
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I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.
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There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't.
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Many fans were surprised when they learned that the little girl in drama 'Stairway To Heaven' was me.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.
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When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.
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Anything that you want to write about you can write about in sports.
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There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and locked away until they are all grown up and ready to read them without being smitten.
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I think a lot of the time people assume that their values are universal. And they don't understand which aspects of their values are actually universal and which aspects are very specific.
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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
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The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.
