King Vidor Quotes
The Screen Directors Guild was organized solely by and for the motion picture director... We are not anti-anything: The Guild being formed for the purpose of assisting and improving the director's work in the form of a collective body, rather than as an individual, as was necessary in the past.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
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The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.
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People say it's a Ponzi scheme, it's a bubble. People really don't want to take it seriously. At some point, that narrative will shift to 'virtual currencies are here to stay.'
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Dan Henderson, even when you're close and he hits you from very, very close, you can feel how heavy his hands are. His hands are pretty powerful.
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I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
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Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.
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As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.
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Fear of failure, it's the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.
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I was a good student; I was a good boy. I got A's, and I did all the papers right.
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I like to let my work ethic speak for itself, just things of that nature, like the way I go about practice and show these guys how to do it.
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I go into meetings with some film-makers and they literally have nothing to say, they're almost bored by their own material. I'd rather work with people who are very passionate and very animated about what they want to do. People who just want to tell stories.
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The Screen Directors Guild was organized solely by and for the motion picture director... We are not anti-anything: The Guild being formed for the purpose of assisting and improving the director's work in the form of a collective body, rather than as an individual, as was necessary in the past.
