Arthur Holly Compton Quotes
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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I was just lucky I lived in this time of mass-market paperbacks.
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
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As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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Sure there is a sexy attitude, and when they say, 'Give me a sexy look with your eyes,' you give it to them. It doesn't have to relate to the product. People are just drawn to it.
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I am, as are most writers, just hugely obsessive, and so are many of my closest friends, who tend to be writers or scientists. It's a trait of human nature that I'm particularly in touch with. So I tend to project it onto my characters.
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I think maybe written films are better than real films. You can see them in your head and yet everything is exactly as you want it to be.
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There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.
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My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.
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My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.
