Leslie Moonves Quotes
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When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
Typecasting is something I have to be careful with, since I play myself on Geek & Sundry so much on my weekly show 'The Flog.' That's why I did 'Dragon Age: Redemption' last year, so I could do something a little more dramatic and hard-edged.
Felicia Day -
Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
Gary Oldman -
Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead.
Frances O'Grady -
Some companies simply aren't meant to be bigger than they are. They provide products and services that satisfy their customers in a way that pays the bills, produces reasonable profits, and allows them to keep their people employed and fulfilled. And there's nothing whatsoever wrong with that.
Patrick Lencioni -
In life, there's a ladder sometimes, and maybe at the top, there's a mirror. You take a step up, then maybe three steps down... just because you don't want to face the decloaking in the mirror.
Forest Whitaker
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Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.
Irvine Welsh -
That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.
Dana Carvey -
As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.
Ed Sheeran -
I like there to be some interest in every element of my life.
Waris Ahluwalia -
Modern capitalism seeks to assure us that it operates according to the principles of free creativity, endless development and diversity. It glosses over its other side in order to hide the reality that millions of people are enslaved by an all-powerful and fantastically stable norm of production. We want to reveal this lie.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova -
I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
Upton Sinclair
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Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By the terrible incantations of defeats And by the fear that the defeats and the dreams are one. The whole race is a poet that writes down The eccentric propositions of its fate.
Wallace Stevens -
Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
Yann Martel -
At this point, I don’t need my records to be Number One or sell as many as this person or that person. That’s not fundamentally important - I don’t believe that sustains you.
Bruce Springsteen -
Lydgate opened the sort of letter…'My dear husband I very good…I come in flying ship…we be very happy…love.' It was as satisfactory a letter as he had ever received from a woman.
Anthony Burgess -
I'm not good at dressing up fancy; I always just do my thing, which is whatever I'm in the mood for.
Charli XCX -
As an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed us to win two world wars and provided millions of families with a ticket to the middle class. But public policy needs to go beyond sentiment and history.
Christina Romer
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'Billy Elliot' embodies the idea that anyone can achieve anything regardless of their socio-economic background.
Eric Fellner -
Holed up at the New Orleans Superdome hoping to get on a bus for Houston's Astrodome.
Allen Toussaint -
Sir Wiggo sounds nice.
Bradley Wiggins -
Viola Davis keeps saying this movie should be called The Big Responsibility instead of The Help, because there were so many groups of people that you wanna do right by. You want to do right by Southerners and the African-American community and the readers of the book and the people that grew up with domestics and the people who worked as domestics. There's a million different groups that you're trying to please and satisfy that you're worried about not loving what comes across onscreen.
Emma Stone -
You won't see Moonves on Twitter.
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