Irwin Winkler Quotes
No one wants to hear from the producer. He's the guy by the pool with a cigar in his mouth and a couple of lovelies on his arm. But when you're a director, they want to hear what you have to say about everything - the war, the world.
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Honestly, at times, I still get bored. 'Dancing with the Stars' kept me busy, and that's what I like. When I first started fighting, I was working two jobs, and I was still going to school at the same time while training. I'm meant to be a busy person.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
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I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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The audience I'm targeting doesn't care about the language spoken in the films they watch. They're interested in more important things like story, performance, cinematography etc.
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There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.
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In the past, my brain would never stop. Now I'm a father; the world no longer revolves around me. When I'm with Bronx, he's got my complete attention. He's the only thing that occupies my thoughts.
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I can now video chat with my grandkids from any corner of the world, listen to music, or order food and have it delivered to my front door.
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As an entertainer, a comedy guy, whatever, you're never gonna be truly 100-percent happy with anything.
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No one wants to hear from the producer. He's the guy by the pool with a cigar in his mouth and a couple of lovelies on his arm. But when you're a director, they want to hear what you have to say about everything - the war, the world.
