Arthur Rankin, Jr. Quotes
In all our pictures, we had an antagonist who becomes the good guy, and the underdog fulfills his quest.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
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The ballets you do make you into the final product you are. And I had extraordinary partners.
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As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
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I don't want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
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I want us to be judged by the impact we have on the health of the people of Africa and the health of women. Improvements in the health of the people of Africa and the health of women are key indicators of the performance of WHO. This is a health organization for the whole world... But we must focus our attention on the people in greatest need.
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After 'Lost', I never need to take a job for the money again.
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In all our pictures, we had an antagonist who becomes the good guy, and the underdog fulfills his quest.
