Otto Preminger Quotes
I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.
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I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted.
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Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
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If I can't drive my old pickup to wherever I'm going, well, chances are good that I just won't go.
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My go-to jeans are old Levi's I've gotten from boyfriends; they're worn-in and really yummy and perfect.
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If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'
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Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.
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I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.
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'Make You Miss Me' is an important song to me. Having it go No. 1 as the fifth single off of my first record is the cherry on top of a chapter in my life I'll never forget.
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The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.
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Yes, I mean, I used to be into the big bulk thing, and that's why my legs look like those of a cyclist instead of a shooter's, but I think there is a point to where too much is not a good thing. I think I try to lower my center of gravity by doing a lot of legs.
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It's too bad I'm not a flirt. When I'm on the sets, I'm too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.
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Epic were adamant that I should carry on being me. They liked the way I look, my clothes, hats... nothing's changed really.
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Conservatives were sure that if you eliminated welfare for single moms, it would eliminate - or at lease greatly reduce - single motherhood. So in 1996 we had welfare reform. Did not change the trend in the least. Soon half of all babies will be born out of wedlock.
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I did not even look at the scoreboard when my routine was done in 1976.
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The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
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I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.
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I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.
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I'm really obsessed with the past.
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I will not look back and say, 'I should have played in England.'
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I was always telling myself I could handle a more complex role, I could handle something bigger and more interesting than the work I was doing. But I wasn't demanding that of myself. At a certain point, I realized it was never going to come my way unless I started taking more control of it. That's what I realized I had to do.
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I'll never be, at least in my mind, as cool as Jason Bourne.
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I have a great time with the kids. I'm always happy when they're around.
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I like the name Engelbert. It's unusual. But Humperdinck? Not so much.
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I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.
