Clara Mamet Quotes
Preston Sturges is one of my favorites. I learned about dialogue and timing from him - louder, faster, funnier. But I do love Mel Brooks.
Quotes to Explore
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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I have had many anxieties for our commonwealth, principally occasioned by the depreciation of our money.
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NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
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I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.
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Kate Moss has great style.
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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My sister is dyslexic, and she's so smart, so intelligent in all of the ways that matter.
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As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
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I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement.
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No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.
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I'm a surfer at heart. Both my parents moved to Hawaii in the 1970s, where they met and became Christians. Then they taught me and my two brothers how to love the Lord - and how to surf!
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If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, why should he integrate animality into this sacred human emotion?...Is love incompelete without it?...Is love the name of physical excersize ?
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I'll always have a relationship with Scotland.
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I feel that I've worked with a lot of interesting people, and I have no regrets. I'm just curious about what I might have done if I'd had people in my life then who did explain what the publicity game was.
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Preston Sturges is one of my favorites. I learned about dialogue and timing from him - louder, faster, funnier. But I do love Mel Brooks.
