Marguerite Moreau Quotes
Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn't very good, but because it has great relationships with different theaters, it can get into a big theater.
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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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I made my first movie when I was five.
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I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
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I would love to do a period movie. I've always wanted to wear the corset, you know. It's a girl thing!
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When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.
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The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
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If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed.
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I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.
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When I was in advertising, I did a great deal of work on television commercials. A co-worker and I wrote a screenplay, which led to a few more screenplays, and some were optioned by production companies. I was advised to move to California but didn't want to make the move. I decided to use another form of storytelling, so I wrote a novel.
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Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
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There's only one thing you can do in bankruptcy: break your word, break your deals. It allows you to say to the small businesses, who have been catering lunches for you, 'Sorry, we're not paying you.' It allows you to go to the workers and say, 'Sorry, we're not paying you.'
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I've always kind of tried to do something that was a little different than just simple 'I love you, baby'-type songs.
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The exciting thing about Bleachers and fun. are they're different, and they're aesthetically different in many ways. But it's also like my role is very different, and that's cool.
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I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.
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I'd love a super human memory. My memory has never been good.
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During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair.
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I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don't regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning.
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Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power.
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The big message of gospel is that you don't have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.
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You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.
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Indy car racing is much more aggressive.
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If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.
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Whether you are a consumer, a hardware maker, a software developer or a provider of cool new services, it's hard to make a move in the American cellphone world without the permission of the companies that own the pipes.
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Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn't very good, but because it has great relationships with different theaters, it can get into a big theater.
