Lee R. Raymond Quotes
He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency.
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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Every celebrity in the world, if their movie bombs or whatever, they hold their kid up on a magazine and say, 'I'm really a dad.'
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Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
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What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.
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As an actor, it's up to you to show that you can do something else. For me, the interesting actors don't always go where you expect to find them.
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In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.
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I read '1984' at a precocious age, like 8, and when I did the math, I realized that Julia, Winston Smith's lover, was born the same year I was, 1957. I read that book over and over again with the 1960s as a backdrop: anti-war and anti-bomb protests and this general pervasive sense of doom.
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It has never been recommended to confuse 'loving' with 'seeking to please'… ...Salome pleased Herod's guests; I can hardly believe she was burning with love for them. As for poor John the Baptist... ...she certainly did not envelop him in her love.
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When you first think of making a monster movie you have to realize that a lot of people may be down on you because there is a big prejudice against such films.
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He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency.
