Cecil B. DeMille (Cecil Blount DeMille) Quotes
What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with.
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Each generation of scientists also depends upon its own environment.
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I could never be in a situation with a job where I was not allowed to listen to music all day. I would rather work at a fast food restaurant where I could turn on the radio all day rather than be in a situation where I have to sneak and listen to music.
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The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth - pickle-jar chin, mainsail ears and a nose like a trigonometry problem. What's more, she had the deep frown and snit wrinkles that come from a lifetime of bad character.
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Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.
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Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure.
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Those are situations where you're almost guaranteed to give up one (run). In fact with second and third with no outs, we just hoped to minimize and maybe give up one, possible two runs. We just didn't want to extend the inning any further than that. To get out of both of those situations without giving up a run was a real boost for us. Offensively, I think it helped give us some momentum to build on.
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In animation, there's silly things I get to do with my voice. I get to have a wider range, so my voice gets to dance more than it does on camera.
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Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
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In 'The General Strike,' we celebrate those who bring a new vision for the world to the table. People who stand for workers rights, human rights, a just representative political system, and a new mode of doing business where sustainability is the norm not the exception.
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I don't think I could ever settle down. I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would prefer anything to an anticlimax.
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If you have a diverse workforce, then you have a much better chance of picking up on things that a lack of diversity would hide from them.
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So I wanted to write a play that put some thoughts and feelings in the air about the miracle and the mystery and that alluded to deep and unknown forces. But then really just have people going to the store and fixing the sink and going through the normal things of looking for love and getting up in the morning. Because that's how we live.
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Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of your culture, you’ll never stop being conscious of it. Wherever you go for the rest of your life, you’ll be tempted to say to the people around you, “how can you listen to this stuff and not recognize it for what it is?
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Life is not just food, it's something spiritual.
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Making movies is just as much of a game. They say Hollywood is like high school with money.
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Some people haven't got a life, I suppose. They want to be on the road all the time.
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What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with.
