Floyd Abrams Quotes
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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I do things right. No shortcuts.
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I don't miss being on the road right now because the thing is, I was on the road for eight years, so I love pizza, but pizza every day for eight years is a different thing.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
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So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness.
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Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.
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Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.
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I'm a California girl. I grew up in Inglewood right by LAX.
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That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.
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I think the over-militarization of local police forces is also true of the over-militarization of the federal government, so I don't really run and hide from the comment that I think there are 48 federal agencies that have SWAT teams.
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If you've got five cameras, you're making sure that you're in the right position for each one of the cameras.
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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.
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It's all about music, because music is basically what's... been my avenue out of maybe being involved in things I shouldn't be.
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If I'm naughty, I'm grounded for two weeks or Mum takes my phone and my laptop because she knows I can't live without them. Sometimes I'll say, 'Mum, do you just want to take my laptop?' because I can still use the Internet on my phone. But now she's going to read this and see what I've been doing.
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The hopes of the right-minded may be realized, those of fools are impossible.
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This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
