Jim Morrison Quotes
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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We did 356 'Dallas' episodes between 1978 and 1991. The most memorable moment for me happened in 1980 when I got shot at the end of the third series. The rest is a blur.
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Sex appeal is a good thing for commercial cinema. Though I can't sit at home and consider myself a sex symbol, it is for people to do so. I want to be known as an interesting actor.
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I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
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I'm a big believer that success is never final and failure is never fatal.
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'My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.'
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You are that rarest of creatures: a man with the wisdom to see beyond his own time.
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I subscribe to 'National Geographic,' 'Scientific American,' 'Discover,' and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head.
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I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.
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I like places that have history in the sense of - you feel responsible to it.
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I don't want to have to look good all the time - that's not realistic.
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We can work with anybody. I mean, we passed the 9/11 health bill with Tom Cotton. Most people would assume I wouldn't be able to work with Tom Cotton and Rand Paul and Ted Cruz.
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I'm not crazy about being out of control, and I get emotional when things are unclean. When things are out of order. When things are messy. Because I lived in a mess as a child.
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It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
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I definitely love T.V.
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One of my central philosophies is to be creatively driven so I have to be extraordinarily creative in the way I get things done and I have to be really flexible. Striving for the best creativity can be a really moving target if you're trying to budget anything because if you come up with a better idea for something and it's going to make the movie stronger then you have to do it. And that's what I do. The difficulty is that you have to use more judgement as a producer then you might in other places. I have to make unbelievably great creative decisions.
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Most women are more into real estate than sex. They want to own you.
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I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.
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Family issues and a failing career would be enough to consume most young actresses.
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I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is dead. Although you can't interview them, you have a fuller perspective on their whole life after they're gone and people are more willing to talk about them.
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I am the Lizard King. I can do anything!
