Evan Ingersoll (Chuck Inglish) Quotes
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When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they'll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don't.
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The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
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The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.
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The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.
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You can get any film now basically for free, and that's where I think the model we're talking about is - if you give people what they want, how they want it and when they want it, they're more likely to pay for it.
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I'm not interested in being Don Quixote. I'm interested in running the City of New York.
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I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.
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At the end of the day, there are people out there that want to see you fail.
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I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed.
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Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.
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When you're representing a sport, people are more likely to judge and comment as, unlike other fields, sport permits every viewer to participate to a certain level.
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A lot of people have come with 100 songs and never had the impact that I have with one, and I'm well aware of that.
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People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.
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In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.
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I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.
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When I walk onto a film set, I become frightened and nervous. There's all this equipment, all these people, and most of them do things you don't know how to do. I didn't come from a film background.
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With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? It sure sounds like it.
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We could say that compassion is the ultimate attitude of wealth: an anti-poverty attitude, a war on want. It contains all sorts of heroic, juicy, positive, visionary, expansive qualities. And it implies larger scale thinking, a freer and more expansive way of relating to yourself and the world.
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Any band on their first couple records is just trying to keep up with their inspiration.
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I want to be a band that people haven't seen.
