Arthur Hiller Quotes
I thought we were making a nice little movie. That's how it was regarded by everyone else, too.
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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We're pretty good at putting bunts down and really good at hitting. I know as a pitcher, when you face a pitcher you know can hit, that's not fun. I think taking pride in that, and being able to hit helps your own cause.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.
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The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
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For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.
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I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.
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The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.
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This world is very good as if we do good deeds then we will get its fruits. World is bitter for those who are live their life with corruption or sins.
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You gotta understand, 'Swingers' was a resume film for me. I never thought anybody would see the movie who I wasn't in the room with showing it to them.
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One of the reasons I do like 'Cult' is that it plays along the same vibe as the movie 'Seven,' which I absolutely love. There was a period of cinema in the mid-'90s that I was a huge fan of, with 'Heat' and 'Seven' and the Tarantino era. If I've ever been fanatical, it was about those films, back in the day.
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I thought we were making a nice little movie. That's how it was regarded by everyone else, too.
