Walter Munk Quotes
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.
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A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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The stage is our pulpit, and you can use all of that energy and that music and the lights and the colors and the sound. But you know, you've got to be careful.
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One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.
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In order for sensation to accede to the objectivity of things, it must itself be changed into a thing. The agent of change is language: the sensations are turned into verbal objects.
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I'd love to do a film with Michael Fassbender. He's one of my heroes. I think he's absolutely amazing and I would love to do a project with him.
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I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.
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You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.
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The breaks you take from work pay you back manifold when you return because you come back with a fresher mind and newer thinking. Some of your best ideas come when you're on vacation.
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My retail partners, they are my brand ambassadors. They're the ones who are selling the shoes to women.
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Style of the future is the convergence of function and fashion.
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I interpret contemporary human social behavior to comprise hypertrophic outgrowths of the simpler features of human nature joined together into an irregular mosaic.
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The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute:
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The apple of knowledge is not far from here. As soon as you've eaten it, you'll know as much as I do. But be careful not to make any mistakes: most of the apples hanging from that tree are enveloped in a thick skin. If you taste it, you will be brought low, beneath man; the inner part of the fruit will bring you up to the level of an angel.
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I came from a supportive home with a mommy and a daddy, and they had everything I wanted.
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Despair exists only when there is hope.
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When you don't have to buy something, it allows you to try new things.
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Emerging actors know there's a whole lot to learn each time they are spending with someone who's done a lot.
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We still have hope; it is what keeps us going.
