Carol Lynley Quotes
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The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.
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I think what you call 'metropolitan America' - as in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles - I think there's more awareness of the atypical, while in more traditional Britain, there's the kitchen-sink dramas and thrillers. It's more formulaic.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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What's in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.
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At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.
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In May 2013, my lawyer Dmitry Dinze filed a complaint about the conditions at PC-14 with the prosecutor's office. The deputy head of the colony, Lieutenant Colonel Kupriyanov, instantly made conditions at the camp unbearable.
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I have to arrange my life very carefully. I need eight hours' sleep to work.
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Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.
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The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it?' Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.
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Now, I don't make decisions as fast as I used to.
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I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I've always felt that we oldies can learn so much from them and draw from them inspiration in our flagging and rickety years.
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I think it's important to surrender to situations that take you out of your comfort zone.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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I will fight to the last breath, even though my family cowers in terror in the palace.
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This uses a lens system, which I have used for years in various different ways, but I've never used it in the context of an interview. This is the very first time that I've done that. It's a lens called The Revolution, so it allowed me to interview Elsa Dorfman and actually operate the camera. Well one of the cameras, because there were four cameras there.
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CEOs are also chief capital allocators. This is a point Warren Buffett has repeatedly made: that the role management plays in allocating capital across businesses and boosting returns on that capital is a critical yet poorly recognized one.
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No one can give you better advice than yourself.
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Don't let any opportunity lead you away from serving God. That's a price that's too high to pay.
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I am not whiny!
