Samuel Goldwyn Quotes
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
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Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling the whole time. I laugh when I'm uncomfortable.
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.
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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.
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I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre... It's funny - I don't have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week.
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The sense of jubilee for music and what we're making is always genuine.
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Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.
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Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.
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If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.
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Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.
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I was raised on movie sets, and I decided for myself at a very young age that it was what I wanted to do.
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Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
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You can live as a ghost, waiting for death to come, or you can dance.
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I'm always repeating myself. You never just do a scene once, you do it an insane amount of times.
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When you spend such a large portion of your life working - and it's not fun, and you're worried about getting sued or fired for saying the wrong thing or for acting crazy at a work party - then what has work done to America? That's the impetus to have a huge office Christmas party.
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There was nothing more I wanted to do than to see my dad react well to my music. I still do. I send him my demos all the time.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
