Anna D. Shapiro Quotes
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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The different bodies of my work end themselves when there's no more discovery to be had.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it's one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I'm a very lucky man.
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I was so horrifically bad at tennis.
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I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.
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Politicians know that structural reforms - to increase competition, foster innovation, and drive institutional change - are the way to tackle structural impediments to growth. But they know that while the pain from reform is immediate, gains are typically delayed and their beneficiaries uncertain.
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To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.
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I never wanted to be a movie star.
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There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their successes and from their mistakes also. But you cannot replicate; you can only learn.
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It's so nice that there's all this new space for new, good content. It's good news for us actors, since nobody makes real independent films anymore.
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Charity is very difficult to do right. Thinking through what people need: You can't start a charity without that. It's like starting a business without the product.
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'Love Story' I wrote on my bedroom floor in about 20 minutes.
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Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.
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It's unbelievable. But I've never been to a pro football game. I've never been to a pro hockey game, either. I guess I'm not much of a sports fan.
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If I were the government I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on artists who paint landscapes from nature. Oh, I don't mean to kill anyone; just a little dose of bird-shot now and then as a warning.
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Nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work. A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.
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Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary".
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I guess there's a sort of cycle with writing books. There's all the researching and then the imagining and writing - which is the real job - and then there's always a period when the book comes out and you have to lift your head and venture out.
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When the Savior Himself was born, there were troubled times.
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Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.
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The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.
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My main interest is in cultivating my company.
