Marc Cherry Quotes
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I firmly believe that the Constitution is the most powerful challenge to illiberal tendencies. If the Constitution is followed in letter and spirit and if the laws are made in the spirit in which Constitution was made, liberties can indeed be protected.
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.
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My most firmly held value is what Albert Schweitzer termed 'reverence for life.' I take this seriously; many would say that because I extend it to nonhumans, I take it too far.
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Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.
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I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it.
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Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was correct.
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I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting.
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Each one prays to God according to his own light.
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I never liked dolls or played house. I read and wrote, climbed trees, collected rocks, rode my bike, and befriended boys, platonically.
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America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the conquest of our national character.
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The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.
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My dad always made sense. My dad was only wrong when I didn't understand him. Had I listened to him, my life would have been so much easier.
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I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off.
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I train five days a week hard - but it is short and sharp - 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest.
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Wittgenstein's ruler: 'Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.' (page 224)
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No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself.
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Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn’t allow us to forget.
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Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.
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Well, somebody's got to sing. They won't hire you unless you sing.
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I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.
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What I'd love to do would be to bring a person from the past to me. In that case I'd pick Jane Austen, because I'd like to know what really made her tick. It's my opinion that she was inhibited by her family and a desire to do the right thing. Away from all that, I believe she'd show new facets and enjoy the adventure.
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My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.
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I've got a contract that keeps me around a few more years.
