Albert Maltz Quotes
By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.
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There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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I am a big music nerd.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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Deception can cost billions. Think Enron, Madoff, the mortgage crisis. Or in the case of double agents and traitors, like Robert Hanssen or Aldrich Ames, lies can betray our country. They can compromise our security. They can undermine democracy. They can cause the deaths of those that defend us.
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Marketers sometimes get caught in this lie that you must talk to people only in the voice that they recognize.
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We build our legacy piece by piece, and maybe the whole world will remember you or maybe just a couple of people, but you do what you can to make sure you're still around after you're gone.
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Through school, I saw plenty of theatre my parents weren't necessarily up on. They would prefer a football game to watching 'The Nutcracker,' and that's fine. I enjoy both.
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I admit that when I think of the money one could make from all this, I get a little twinge. But I'm pretty happy with nerd values: Get yourself a comfortable living, then do a little something to change the world.
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In a world of turmoil and uncertainty, it is more important than ever to make our families the center of our lives and the top of our priorities.
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By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.
