Irwin Winkler Quotes
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.
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Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.
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Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.
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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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Everyone has a crazy old lady in their family like 'Mama.' No one ever comes up to me and says 'Mama' is just like them, so no one is ever offended by her. Even young people like to laugh at her. I think she helps kids appreciate their own grandmothers more.
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I travel a lot, and that makes it harder to date, but it also opens up opportunities for me to meet people where I wouldn't normally meet them.
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I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.
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I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre... It's funny - I don't have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.
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Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.
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Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
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As an actress, you have to give your character a life, a history, and make it full and rich for yourself.
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Americans are worried about pollution - oil trains running through their towns, fracking in their neighborhoods, coal dust in their air. They're worried about what the future will look like for their children if carbon pollution continues unchecked.
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I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.
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A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.
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A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
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When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
