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.
Garry Kasparov -
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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In 2012, I helped lead the successful effort in Congress to allow states to conduct drug testing of people receiving unemployment benefits.
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Kill them with success and bury them with a big smile
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts. Woman the poem, man the poet; woman the heart, man the head; such divisions are only important when they are never to be transcended. If nature is never bound down, nor the voice of inspiration stifled, that is enough.
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I remember doing one day of work, and I was so good I ended up doing 25 days on that movie. And all of it ended up on the editing room floor. That was my first Hollywood lesson: Just because you filmed a movie doesn't necessarily mean that you're in it.
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I thought we were making a nice little movie. That's how it was regarded by everyone else, too.
