Bill Konigsberg Quotes
Wow. Did I just write that? I didn't want who I am to come between us? How could I not have seen that?
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
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When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
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I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.
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A cat is never vulgar.
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Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.
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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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Infosys demonstrated to the world that an Indian company could implement standards of quality, operations, finance that compare with the best. That is a legacy I am happy with.
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One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
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When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be like, 'Yeah.' I'd saved £700 by the age of 10. I thought: 'What the hell am I hoarding this for?' So I bought a drum kit.
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I like to spend as much time with my friends and family as possible.
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Having to re-recruit, rehire, and retrain, and wait for a new employee to get up to speed is devastating in terms of cost.
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There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.
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In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.
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I always believed in my characters. I lived them.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.
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Wow. Did I just write that? I didn't want who I am to come between us? How could I not have seen that?
