Margaret Mitchell Quotes
I don't see how it could possibly be made into a movie unless the entire book was scrapped and Shirley Temple cast as 'Bonnie,' Mae West as 'Belle,' and Stepin Fetchit as 'Uncle Peter.'
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So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
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My parents were brutal to each other, so I slept in the basement by an old coal-fired furnace. I became a street kid. Occasionally, I'd live with aunts or uncles, then I'd run away to live in the woods, trapping and hunting game to survive. The wilderness pulled at me; still does.
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If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.
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The demographic of young people... in each hand is a phone, more powerful than a computer. It's a doorway to the digital nation, to education.
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
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The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.
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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?
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Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which money can be laid out than in the education of children.
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I am not thinking too far ahead, just want to take it one thing at a time.
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I would love to option 'Crying of Lot 49' and turn it into a movie.
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'Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video stores won't take a movie that's not rated, so I had to make the movie an R.
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My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons.
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You can shoot and edit a movie from your iPhone and upload it to YouTube. Of course, what's not universal is talent. Are you making anything that anyone really should see?
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You have to put your kids first no matter what; that's how I feel.
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I don't see how it could possibly be made into a movie unless the entire book was scrapped and Shirley Temple cast as 'Bonnie,' Mae West as 'Belle,' and Stepin Fetchit as 'Uncle Peter.'
