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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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'll meet someone on the street and blurt out my most intimate details. I think everybody secretly - or not so secretly - wants to be understood, and I just want to connect, you know?
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Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
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I grew up in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded acres that served as my playground.
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Gandhi was only minding his own business when he took a walk to get some salt and ended up overthrowing the British Empire. You can't set out to overthrow an empire, but if you have to get some salt then get some salt. If you have to write some independent songs that are honest, just write them. If you have to do a day job stacking shelves, so be it.
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I admire people who are very successful. But if that success has been achieved through too much ruthlessness, then I may admire that person, but I can't respect him.
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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.
