Money Quotes
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Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.
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What you don't do is contacting someone you haven't reached out for 10 years and asking for money.
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You have a deeper purpose that drives you. You have to talk to yourself about what that purpose is. If you run through like a hamster to chase fame or money, you might end up wasting your life away. You find what drives you and gives you energy.
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Making films requires the creative skills you'd expect, but it also demands immense non-creative skills, like the ability to raise all that money and the savviness to work the studio's politics.
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When I went back to New Hampshire after graduating from law school, my plan was to go work for a private firm because I had to pay some student loans off and make money and really just be in the private practice of law. Which can be very rewarding.
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I think about the period of, like, the '70s and early '80s where nobody had money to make big movies and there was no CGI or anything like that and people had to get super creative. And then, you know, when you've got somebody who can paint you any picture on a computer and you get hundreds of millions of dollars to make a movie, its almost like the creativity diminishes somewhat.
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Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.
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Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?
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The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.
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I don't know how much money I've got. I did ask the accountant how much it came to. I wrote it down on a bit of paper. But I've lost the bit of paper.
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You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't ever make decisions solely for that reason.
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I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind.
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I am in movies basically for the money, and frankly, I have a hard time believing those who say they act for the love of acting!
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I just try to make as much money as possible. However I can do it. With as much integrity as I can have.
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In the quiet hours when we are alone and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a moment in which we wonder, not how much money we are earning, nor how famous we have become, but what good we are doing.
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I saved up my pocket money when I was about five or six years old. I just wanted to buy a CD, and at that age, I didn't care about what it was, and I ended up buying 'The Teletubbies Say 'Eh-Oh!'' I started off strong.
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If somebody offered me the money I would probably make one but would I actually seek it out? I don't know. I don't really live my life like that.
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Without doing the big blockbusters, I wouldn't be able to find the money to go after little projects that I want to do.
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I don't think that any economist disputes that we're in the worst economic crisis since the great depression. The good news is that we're getting a consensus around what needs to be done.
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I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
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The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.
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We hear talk now about reforming public education. There are billions of dollars at stake for such a reform. But I have not heard Arne Duncan, who is the U.S. Education Secretary, mention once the civic illiteracy in the country.
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One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.
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In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.