Ted Kotcheff Quotes
Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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As for T.B. Joshua, I am a descendant of my family in Arigidi-Akoko in Ondo State, Nigeria - but as for the divine nature, the power of God affects my life to give peace to people, deliverance to people, and healing to people.
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I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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While many in the social enterprise space often qualify themselves as 'non-profit,' these organizations should instead treat themselves as 'for-purpose.' These organizations should focus on their mission to create social good, while still treating themselves with the same commitment to rigor and discipline as the best for-profits.
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Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
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My dad was a voracious news consumer. I remember just sitting with my family all the time. I would sit on his lap and read the paper with him. He would read it to me.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
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When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible.
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
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I believe Government should encourage competition, NOT prop up the weak when the going gets tough.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
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Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.
