Leon Uris Quotes

The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after.

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• When I did a high-profile project, I was not the developer of it.

  

  A. James Clark
  • High
  • Project
  • Did

• We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute. It's got to stop somewhere.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Power
  • Stop
  • Project

• I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Way
  • Possible
  • Project

• The West has demonstrated its ability in the past to project power and move troops to distant regions.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Power
  • Past
  • Project

• I would like the thrill of making a new project every time.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Time
  • New
  • Project

• When I was eleven, I got cast in the last directorial project of Christopher Reeve.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • Project
  • Last
  • Cast

• What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Way
  • Me
  • Project

• Everything can't be a postage-stamp-sized project. Everything can't be a chamber piece. Musicals aren't even meant to be that, or identified with it... It's none of it simple.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Simple
  • Project
  • Meant To Be

• I feel like I've really earnt my stripes - I feel ready to play a lead. I would just love to prove I'm good enough to carry a project.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Good
  • Play
  • Feel

• Every film I do, I'm involved with from the very conception of the project.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Film
  • Involved
  • Project

• This project, 'Electronica,' is about working with people who are a strong source of inspiration to me.

  

  Jean-Michel Jarre
  • Inspiration
  • Project
  • Electronica

• Any project that I find encouraging that isn't attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Interest
  • Project
  • Encouraging

• Over the years, many executives have said to me with pride: 'Boy, I worked so hard last year that I didn't take any vacation.' I always feel like responding, "You dummy. You mean to tell me you can take responsibility for an eighty-million-dollar project and you can't plan two weeks out of the year to have some fun?

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Fun
  • Responsibility
  • Boy

• The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after. It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find. Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Book

• Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.

  

  Linda Blair
  • Genius
  • Director
  • Project

• People think you have this exciting and romantic life, because you project this exciting, romantic life on screen. But in reality you're just doing the same thing as everyone else - you know, sitting around watching TV with your gut hanging out, playing with your kid, or even sitting on the toilet. You know what's weird? Even I'm not that interested in my personal life any more.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • People
  • Life
  • Reality

• My fun is working on a project and solving the problems.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Fun
  • Problems
  • Project

• I'd done a very long project on Bridges To Babylon. I was on the road for ages with that. When I came off the road, I thought, the next thing I want to do on my own.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Long
  • Done
  • Road

• Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride of quietness, then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Book
  • Language
  • Literature

• I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book.I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book. It was a different process for me, but I liked it.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Different
  • Book

• According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • World
  • War
  • Today

• The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Project
  • Immersed