Irving Thalberg Quotes
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I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
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Love can never be fully explained.
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I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.
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The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.
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I've always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don't like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.
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I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and he's a good friend.
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This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.
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When in doubt, wear a suit. Look at male politicians: you see them in a suit, and they look fine. But if you see a picture of them on the weekend or on vacation, there's a good chance they look terrible and unstylish.
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We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.
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If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
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Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.
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I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.
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Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.
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I have never been worried about the future. I will always be able to drive my own feet.
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A lot of people put pressure on me, but I don't think I feel that type of pressure. It is more of a good thing that people are trying to do that.
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Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; - a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.
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Everyone tells us you really don't know what you're capable of till you're in the middle of it.
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Anyone can relate to struggle, whether you're European or Asian. Anyone can relate to having to get up and go to work and eat.
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I think the poetry that came out of Belfast, and especially the Queen's University set, in the 1970s and '80s - you know, Paul Muldoon and Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Ciaran Carson - that was probably the finest body of work since the Gaelic renaissance, up there with the work of Yeats and Synge and Lady Gregory.
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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
