Samuel Goldwyn Quotes
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
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I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.
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I don't want to become known as just a body.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
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One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.
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I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
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Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.
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I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.
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In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people.
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The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.
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Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands of good showmanship.
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Past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war.
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I admired Truman, among many other things, because he integrated the Army. I admired JFK because the very first civil rights legislation was passed at his insistence. JFK showed what you could do, though he was a deeply flawed person, as we all now know.
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When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life's ills.
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Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.
