Making Quotes
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People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.
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Making mistakes is how we learn.
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One question you ask as a writer or any kind of artist when you start making something is, 'Does this have reason to exist in the world?' And you're reassured when you get little confirmations that people are pleased it did exist - whether they buy a ticket, whether it gets good reviews, whether it transfers.
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I do feel like once you know you are someone who is in the world and there are other countries and cultures, that stays with you and your decision-making forever.
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We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.
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By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation, manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.
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You've got all these people making action movies, and they've never been in a life-or-death situation.
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Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.
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Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making.
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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
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All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.
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If something's important to you, you make time for it.
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Destroying things is much easier than making them.
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Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.
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The great thing about making picture books is that you can make absolutely anything you want happen. It's a bit like making a film, but you don't need lots of money for actors and costumes - you just need pens, paper, and your imagination.
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And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies.
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I tell you I look forward with terror to her Germany making war upon us again in ten years.
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What they're doing is, they're making the decisions for us. That's what this country is coming down to. They're going to make the decisions for us.
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If the only thing that you want to do is make money - if that's your whole motivation - I think you're lying to yourself. If the only motivation you have is to make money and make it, what's making it? Oh, you get a yacht or an island. Well, you're going to need someone to be on that island. You're going to need people, one way or another.
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It's often said that leadership is the art of getting people to do what you want, and making them think it's what they want. This captures a lot of what Abraham Lincoln did.
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Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line.
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Freedom... refers to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision is made under threat of force, whether or not force actually materializes or is evident in retrospect.
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Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.
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The best part of my job is that we can be making shows like 'Boardwalk', 'Thrones', 'True Blood' but also female-centered comedies like 'Enlightened', 'Veep' and 'Girls'.
