Arthur Hiller Quotes
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.
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I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.
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If you ever were bullied, you'll always remember that feeling.
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The problem with listening to music today is that there's so much of it everywhere. We've got used to hearing music without actually listening to it.
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I'm not like most comedians. I don't deal with just heckles - I'm also dealing with threats and anger. Here I am, a brown person on stage being quite blunt. I talk about white privilege; I talk about U.S. imperialistic practices; I talk about colonialism. I'm not saying things that are easy for people to laugh at.
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I buy clothes that have repeat value.
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I am a child of the '70s, so I love classic rock - Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, and I also love Coldplay.
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One of the good things about losing your feet is I can wear all the pointy shoes I want, and it doesn't hurt anymore. I can wear shoes just for fashion now.
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Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.
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Halfway through the winter, I decided I didn't want to be a comic anymore. I wanted to be a bear. Because bears are more evolved. It gets cold, and what does the bear do? He goes, 'Well, I'm going to bed! This blows!' And then it gets warm and he goes, 'Well, fuck, time to wake up!'
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Mark Rylance is one of my heroes. I saw 'Jerusalem' four or five times, twice in New York, twice in London.
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The U.S. government uses cash accounting. That is illegal for any enterprise of any size in America except for the U.S. government. Every for-profit business, every not-for-profit business, every state and local government has to use real accounting except for Uncle Sam.
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Not everybody has the chance to grow up on an island.
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No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
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Before WeWork, I had a baby clothing company. When I started out, I had no real contacts in the garment business and no mentor to guide me on how things worked. I just had an idea to put pads on the baby clothes on to protect the baby's knees.
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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
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For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the rights, so we decided to create something from scratch, with Jonathan. By that time we were big fans of his work.
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I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just you; you don't pawn her off on somebody.
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The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees.
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I worked at Starbucks, I was a waiter, a bartender and a valet, sometimes working 2 to 3 jobs at a time while getting a lot of 'no's' as an actor.
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Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
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Howard Minsky had gotten the script to her agent prior to my involvement.
