Hal Riney Quotes
I would rather deal with a tyrant any day than a committee. Committees, as a general rule, aren’t willing to take chances, which is why you have a committee in the first place — so you can share the blame.
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
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To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.
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I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of sudden a thought occurred to me: If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.
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My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. But that's the swish in the work, I think. It's really important to me that the work isn't just sitting on top of something, that the materials are woven together - that they are recognisable and from the world.
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The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy.
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Let's get glam. It's all in the way you move. Let's get glam. Don't let the clothes wear you. Let's get glam. It's all an attitude.
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You couple a sense of entrepreneurship with an extremely intelligent, technically capable people who understand markets, and that's what you see happening in India. India has a leg up on China.
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Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age.
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Ten years after Dayton, that these two primary architects of these appalling crimes should still be free is a failure on all sides.
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Often the strongest evidence of my growth in grace is my growth in the knowledge of my need for grace.
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I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini.
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You can see what man made from the seat of an automobile, but the best way to see what God made is from the back of a horse.
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I've seen some remarkable games, but never anything like that.
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After a long time, I cleared my throat. “So anyway, when we get to Nevada...I think we should rethink your dad’s rule.” Alex glanced down at me and smiled – the first real smile I’d seen on his face in a long time. “You know what? It’s already been rethought and completely ditched,” he said. And he wrapped his arms around me and we stood looking up at the mountains, with the rising rays of the sun lighting them from the east.
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God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget. Why should I worry?
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Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.
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Be a witness, as I excersize my exorcism.
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I would rather deal with a tyrant any day than a committee. Committees, as a general rule, aren’t willing to take chances, which is why you have a committee in the first place — so you can share the blame.
