Billy Donovan Quotes
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I put in my pictures everything I like. So much the worse for the things - they have to get along with one another.
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The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.
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The Blu-ray is the real cinematech of world cinema. That's how it's being preserved. All of these guys that are trying to preserve 35mm negatives? They are wasting their time. There are better ways to see and project this stuff. It's called digital.
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People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.
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I cannot bear to associate with the ordinary run of people. I have to surround myself with individuals who for the most part are more than a trifle insane
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Artist, be brave! Go and make the most of what you do best!
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The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground.
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As far as party primaries are concerned, both Republican - and Democratic - Party primaries are dominated by the most zealous voters, whose views may not reflect the views of most members of their own respective parties, much less the views of those who are going to vote in the November general election.
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This lifestyle is not about deprivation. It's about living inspired.
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When you talk about what you want and why you want it, there's usually less resistance within you than when you talk about what you want and how you're going to get it. When you pose questions you don't have answers for, like how, where, when, who, it sets up a contradictory vibration that slows everything down.
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A lot of the aspects of the world of the film are amalgams of things that already exist.
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My grandma has never been impressed with the TV show Desperate Housewives. She was so angry because I was on television kissing a boy naked; she's very traditional. She said: "If I ever see you kissing that boy again...".
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Mephostopheles is the name of a male gigolo I knew. When he's reaching up to grab me, I suppose it's an erotic bit of poetry.
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Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times.
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Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if you get it, it's great, and if you don't, it's a disaster.
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Change is the only constant.
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False Hustle = cheap fouls, lunging, reaching, etc.
