Claudia Cardinale Quotes
And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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I'll tell you something, and this is true: I've never been able to write a film which I didn't respect. I just can't do it. I'm very happy about all the films I haven't done.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.
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They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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In a democracy, you don't need anyone's permission to form a new political party, publish a politically charged article, or organize a 'tea party.' And in open markets, individuals are free to buy and invest as they see fit.
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With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this way, I am staying in my professorial role; I'm writing teaching stories and teaching novels.
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I worry about everything, which is silly because there's very little you can control anyway.
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More and more smaller entities, such as Politico or TechCrunch, have been able to come out of nowhere and own entities. Dealbook, like them, now has an even greater opportunity, through additional resources, to drill down and offer even more breaking news and deep analysis of the issues that matter to our audience.
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My first ever sex scene in a movie was in 'Superbad.' Because I was 17, for legal reasons my mother had to be on the set. It was real awkward, but it worked out OK because when I watched the movie with her, the sex scene wasn't awkward because she'd been right there when it happened.
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At 13, in my first year of Tonbridge, I went up for the part of Macbeth. I was up against the 17- and 18-year-olds, but for some reason I got the part. It made me incredibly unpopular with my peers, but it was the English and drama teachers who stepped in to save me when others wanted me kicked out of the school.
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You have to believe in yourself and only trust your own vision and instincts. If I'd listened to what other people thought about my work in the first 10 years that I was a writer, I never would have made it to begin with.
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And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie.
