Richard Grossman Quotes
The problem with American democracy is the American corporation, which is a slave holder construct, pure and simple. It's totally invasive, and people are as tightly controlled within the walls of a corporation as they are in a totalitarian society.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.
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I love working in New York.
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I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
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Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.
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I interact with journalists all the time, and I note how they behave.
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It's really fun to see a movie that you've heard about that's really good.
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Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.
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To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
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There are directors you never, ever want to get close to. Lubitsch was one. Outside of the work, I don't think I ever said five words to him. Mamet was pretty much the same thing. His mind is working all the time.
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One thing that is almost always said to me is, I grew up with you. They are meeting me and feel that they actually grew up with me. I was with them during their play hours and thinking hours. I was a part of their childhoods. That's one of the most amazing things.
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Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.
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The American people have been denied important information for their own protection.
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You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
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Poor people and most of the middle class are not willing to be uncomfortable. Remember, being comfortable is their biggest priority in life... The only time you can actually grow is when you are outside your comfort zone.
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This programme would only really make sense and work properly if it was also broadcast on France's international television channel TV5. So I ended up with a double production, on France 2 and TV5.
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The problem with American democracy is the American corporation, which is a slave holder construct, pure and simple. It's totally invasive, and people are as tightly controlled within the walls of a corporation as they are in a totalitarian society.
