Otto Preminger Quotes
I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I don't do negative things.
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Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.
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I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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I like to be able to come and go as I please, and I don't really like having my face and name plastered around. I think it's a bit weird to have your name plastered on every page in a magazine, where in each case you're using a different piece of equipment.
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Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.
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The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.
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Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.
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I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
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I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.
