Otto Preminger Quotes
Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other.
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When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.
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One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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I'm not interested in just beautiful girls and beautiful clothes.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
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I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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I have all of the Apple products. Everything I've ever written, I've written on a Mac. My first computer, my roommates and I chipped in, and we got that first Macintosh - 128K. It had as much memory as a greeting card that plays music.
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I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
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So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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You don't get happy by sitting around going on, 'Oh this is a horrible situation, what to do?' You've got to find the courage to change that. I think change is extremely hard for people.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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I love meeting fans. They're always fun, they always have good things to say, smart questions to ask, and plenty of ideas for me to explore in the future.
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My parents separated it, and that let me know that TV life wasn't my normal life; that was my job and my hobby.
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After almost 50 years in which federal spending averaged about 20 percent of GDP, Joe Sestak and Nancy Pelosi took federal spending to 25 percent. You know, that's a 25 percent increase in the size of the government overnight. That's what we - that's what we've got to rein in.
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Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.
