Alan Ladd Quotes
I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else.
Quotes to Explore
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
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I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do.
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Actually, the fun part was not knowing what the heck I was going to be doing.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
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What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
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I try to cook dinner, but it's difficult when I'm working.
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I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.
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History reminds us that walls can be torn down. But the task is never easy. True partnership and true progress requires constant work and sustained sacrifice. They require sharing the burdens of development and diplomacy; of progress and peace. They require allies who will listen to each other, learn from each other and, most of all, trust each other.
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Looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of property which has suffered some damage.
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Since the 1950s, the key equation of quantum gravity has been called the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. Bryce DeWitt and John Wheeler wrote it down, but in all the time since then, no one had been able to solve it. We found we could solve it exactly, and in fact we found an infinite number of exact solutions.
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I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
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'Shitty things are always simple. Same as great things. Patrick Standish, in conversation.'
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The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.
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I ripped off half my hair with a waxing strip, and it didn't grow back for, like, 5 months.
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Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.
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When I do a play, it's like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.
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Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
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I've ended up as a filmmaker who really loves the movie part of movies. That time in my life was a big influence on the kind of movies that I ended up making. I always think I'm going to make a movie that's gritty and real, but then I make a movie that's like an opera. I fight it at first and then that's just the way it is.
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I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else.
