Neil Portnow (Neil R. Portnow) Quotes
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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It's pretty much run by everybody. We're very involved in everything that goes on. We always have been.
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The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.
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If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.
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Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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When we started the e-commerce, nobody believed that China would have e-commerce because people believed in 'guang-shi,' face-to-face, and all kinds of network in traditional ways. There's no trust system in China.
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My problem in calling for pressures on South Africa is to convince the youth to convince their governments and people that it is not the South African goods that are cheap, but the forced labor of the Africans.
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There is so much art can do to enlighten people, no matter what their views might be. If art can't go there or doesn't elevate the social consciousness in some way, then we are in peril.
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We need the humbleness and clarity to see that our food, while benefitting from technological advances, has benefitted even more from free ecological resources: Cheap energy, lots of water everywhere, and a stable climate.
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When you write a script, you always think about what your heart is asking.
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So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.
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I wasn't really fashion-conscious earlier.
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The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
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Our motto is to work for peace based on social justice. Our mandate is to improve the condition, health and safety of workers, and our mission is universal.
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There are times when the only people you spend time with are the people in your team. That's hard, because I think, 'I'm a girl. I want to hang out with other girls. I just want to be a normal young woman.'
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I'm just someone who cannot fake it. I can only do something with my full heart invested or just not do it at all.
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Now I just don't know who to tell to go to hell Who put the old devil in the distorted angel?
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We live in a time of fake news - things that are made up and manufactured.
