Margaret Mitchell Quotes
Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.
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I do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that's a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That's my job.
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Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
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It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.
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I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
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Yes, I mean, I used to be into the big bulk thing, and that's why my legs look like those of a cyclist instead of a shooter's, but I think there is a point to where too much is not a good thing. I think I try to lower my center of gravity by doing a lot of legs.
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.
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I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.
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I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.
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Any time you make more than a couple of friends at an event, I think that you actually made no friends.
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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
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I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.
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I think that you do get a little extra jolt of confidence when you win an Emmy.
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First of all, I'm Middle Eastern; I'm Iranian, so to be playing a leading role in a big Hollywood movie, I think, is possibly one of the first times.
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I get scripts and think, 'There's not enough here to get my teeth stuck into.' That's a result of studying English, where you luxuriate in these big, lush novels.
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I'm not a great writer.
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Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.
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Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
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It just kind of continues to be strange and interesting to me to try to understand what other people are looking for. And this also just comes from getting older. You look at the stuff certainly that's coming out of Hollywood these days, and you go, "Did what came out of Hollywood when I was a kid make more sense, or was it just that I was in the demographic then?" But I certainly feel increasingly confused and disconnected from it.
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Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.
