Raymond Sokolov Quotes
Sichuan food would not be Sichuanese without the hot chilies that arrived before 1700 from South America.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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Israel's master strategy needs to be moving toward a regional arrangement that will enable a full normalization of relations with the Arab states and the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.
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When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who Vesta was and figure out what was going wrong. I knew it wasn't my singing ability. So it had to be that I was expendable because I didn't have the right look.
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Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
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We have a rich tradition here in the United States of great decathletes, which is amazing 'cause we have absolutely no program to develop these guys. Zero. There's nothing. They do it on their own, just like I did back in '76.
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Everything in moderation, with occasional excess - Ghost Rider (2002)
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such mad confidence within despair.
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Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.
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There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.
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When I started my career, I never looked at myself as one to be inspirational, but as I continued to grow, I've met so many different people who ask, 'How do you do it? You make it look easy.' But it's not easy. I have certain tricks and tips I use every day that have been working for me.
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I didn't have a fraternity-like experience. I mean, I grew up with an older brother and a lot of male cousins and we were very physical with each other. We were very rambunctious when we were kids. But I never thought much - nor did I have reason to think much - about institutionalized hazing. But I think there's a reason young men are drawn to it.
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Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.
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Fame put a lot of pressure on me in the Eighties and early Nineties - and I'm glad that I had the kind of makeup where I could come through it alive, keep myself in hand.
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Never sell, never franchise.
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So all of these things are going on that make you wake up and realize you are a mortal person. You can choose to cruise through your life, but if you do, you're going to open your eyes at some point, and it's gone.
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For the son of immigrants to run for elected office, not even a generation after my parents got here, that's what makes America a great place.
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Sichuan food would not be Sichuanese without the hot chilies that arrived before 1700 from South America.
