Anne Sweeney Quotes
'Dancing with the Stars' is a great format for us. It's a format we license from the BBC, so that can't travel for us, but we consider it a great success. 'Desperate Housewives,' on the other hand, a huge success for us internationally. 'Missing' has actually sold to 80 territories before it's even gone on the air.Anne Sweeney
Quotes to Explore
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Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.
Ranbir Kapoor -
Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
D. B. Sweeney -
As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
Naturi Naughton 3LW -
The effect of sanctions on the Russian economy are clear to everybody, first to the Russians and to the Russian leadership, and the surroundings of the Russian leadership, the circle that is close to the Russian political leadership.
Federica Mogherini -
Women are not all single-issue voters.
Carly Fiorina -
Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
Nadia Giosia
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
Walker Percy -
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Napoleon Hill -
I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
Tahar Rahim -
I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.
Tavi Gevinson -
Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
Iman -
Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.
LaMarr Woodley
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Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.
Saina Nehwal -
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie -
When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.
Daniel Bryan -
Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
Jack Nicholson -
You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.
E. F. Schumacher -
I think I have character, and that is what people like in me.
Carine Roitfeld
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Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that people needed to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country.
Emir Kusturica -
Nothing fails like success.
Lincoln Steffens -
And I used to assemble the family to hear because I thought that they were so good that even from the point of view of enjoyment people shouldn't miss them, and I got every word of his that I could, and I could see by hard argument there was only the one way for it.
Ruth Pitter -
I like to think of myself as a people person.
Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel -
I wasn't born to be a fighter. My hands are too small, and look at these short arms.
Jake LaMotta -
'Dancing with the Stars' is a great format for us. It's a format we license from the BBC, so that can't travel for us, but we consider it a great success. 'Desperate Housewives,' on the other hand, a huge success for us internationally. 'Missing' has actually sold to 80 territories before it's even gone on the air.
Anne Sweeney