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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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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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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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
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I know God loves me. I tell people all the time I'm one of his favorite childs. I had to believe in something bigger than me - bigger than man. I had to believe that God would send somebody across my path to keep my dreams alive.
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The study of gender and language might seem at first to be a narrowly focused field, but it is actually as interdisciplinary as they come.
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My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.
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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.
