Beny Steinmetz Quotes
When you sell a prospecting concession, you're only selling potential. You pay tolls for the right to invest and look for something.
Quotes to Explore
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.
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The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.
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With every film, the pressure is on the rise for the next.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
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I love whimsical things and forests. I'm really into all that.
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Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
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I am fortunate to have only worn one shirt in my career. It is something that is fundamental to me. It is something I have always wanted: to be one of these few who wear only one shirt - a fan and a player of the same team.
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Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.
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When I go to a concert, I can't help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts.
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I am a private human.
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‘…you read mostly menus and the moles on whores’ bellies….’
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Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.
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It's tough to make a movie about movies... We're all too close to it. But 'The Bad and the Beautiful' was very good.
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When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.
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If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.
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Base words are uttered only by the base And can for such at once be understood; But noble platitudes - ah, there's a case Where the most careful scrutiny is needed To tell a voice that's genuinely good From one that's base but merely has succeeded.
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It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man's energy.
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On the one hand, our minds try to probe the ephemeral reality of the quantum world; on the other, we talk, think, and act in a language adapted for discussing trees, rocks, and automobiles -- as well as poetry and emotions.
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I, too, am deeply concerned with an overarching idea that dramaturgs are now authors . . .. I am not taking the position that all dramaturgs own copyright, deserve special billing credit, or should receive remuneration akin to that of the playwright. I know from my ears at the Dramatists Guild that almost everyone a writer encounters has suggestions of how to write and rewrite the play or musical to make it work.
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When you sell a prospecting concession, you're only selling potential. You pay tolls for the right to invest and look for something.
