D. B. Sweeney Quotes
Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.
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I had a nervous breakdown when I was 17 or 18, when I had to go and work with Marky Mark and Herb Ritts. It didn't feel like me at all. I felt really bad about straddling this buff guy. I didn't like it.
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You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it.
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Remember that just because major publishing is having trouble, that doesn't mean people have stopped reading books. Printed books won't go away, but ebooks won't go away, either.
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This is one of the ways fiction is more liberating than nonfiction - I don't have to be so concerned with fact. I had the paradigm of certain people in my head who became my characters, but I never considered these people to be from a "certain sector of society," unless we agree that we're all from certain sectors of society.
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Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.
