Irwin Winkler Quotes
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The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
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We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.
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I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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I'm going to prove to the fans, going to prove to my teammates, that I can be a better defensive player, offensive player, to win games.
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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
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Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.
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If someone wants to do a carbon fee and someone else wants to do a cap on emissions or a renewable portfolio standard, we don't start labeling each other as more or less progressive.
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It's a real challenge because, at 6 and 7, these kids may not even know which side to line up on. It's hard for the guys to start from scratch. It's not a smaller version of the high school game. You can't assume anything at this level.
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The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.
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I found 'Celebrity Gangster' intense, dramatic, a real page turner.
