And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
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GOLDA MEIR if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
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JEREMY RENNER To be, or not to be, that is the question.
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BOBBY W. MILLER Be who you want to be not what others think you should be.
BILAL SAIF 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
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JOSEPH CONRAD To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD Dare to seize all the opportunities on your paths.
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JAMES RHODES The sad heart needs work to do.
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GEORGE MACDONALD To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
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THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
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DAVID SEDARIS Variety is the thing for me to be able to work in theater and be involved in more films and TV movie...
JIMMY SMITS Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
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FEREIDOON YAZDI If I gamble, I'll play roulette. My wife and I will play roulette, and that's about it. I...
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ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
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ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO A Ritual to Read to Each Other
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD When you produce and direct, your movies are different to you. They're not just something you ac...
CAMPBELL SCOTT Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.
TOM STOPPARD The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
HEYWOOD HALE BROUN The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
HEYWOOD BROUN The urge to gamble is so universal, and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
HEYWOOD BROUN The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
HEYWOOD HALE BROUN Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
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CHRIS LAMONT I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea...
RICHARD YATES To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ...
STEPHANIE KLEIN To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
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NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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C. JOYBELL C. How to be a Poet (to remind myself)
Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do wit...
GERMANY KENT Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT How to be wealthy;Birth an idea & then take it to the market place & believe that the market place w...
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ANUJ SOMANY How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing.
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DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Be true to yourself.Give wings of confidence & courage to your endeavour. Your strength is reflected...
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THOMAS S. MONSON Be true to yourself.Let your belief & thoughts for right cause are not compromised at any cost thoug...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Just because you love someone doesn't mean you're meant to be together.
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GARY F EVANS... There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p...
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DEBORAH HEILIGMAN I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can a...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggre...
BILL RODGERS I'm still wet... no, no... I want to produce. I produce about three or four films a year.
LUC BESSON The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, y...
LAWRENCE KASDAN Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations...
C. JOYBELL C. No one else can make you happy, and putting that expectation on the other will doom both of you. You...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS But, I've learned, as we all must, that adults are jerks too. At least some of them. And that's why ...
CLINTON KELLY Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER If we reject, as we must, the doctrine that the majority is always right, to submit moral issues to ...
PETER SINGER This is a great victory for us and the studios and people that work so hard to produce these movies.
DAVID NEWNHAM You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.
LAURA ZISKIN Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the...
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DOUGLAS SIRK If I couldn't read, I couldn't live.
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FLAVA SIRK I thought our kids played well. To play a team like this (Benton Central) which has lost only one ga...
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NORMAN DOUGLAS What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
NORMAN DOUGLAS To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.
NORMAN DOUGLAS You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.
NORMAN DOUGLAS This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
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DOUGLAS JERROLD Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
DOUGLAS JERROLD Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people
twice the time of others.
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it is wanted. Men pay severely wh...
DOUGLAS JERROLD Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the
temptation.
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away his vote by voting either for...
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in any other gown in the world.
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TOM DOUGLAS What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the wa...
DOUGLAS WILDER We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
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DOUGLAS ADAMS Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support.
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DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.
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DOUGLAS WOOLF Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.
DOUGLAS ADAMS and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.
DOUGLAS ADAMS The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people...
DOUGLAS ADAMS I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
DOUGLAS ADAMS I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tel...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Computers don't kill books; people do.
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to ...
SCOTT DOUGLAS I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
DOUGLAS ADAMS It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
DOUGLAS ADAMS For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins...
DOUGLAS ADAMS I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
DOUGLAS ADAMS If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been specially designed to help people...
DOUGLAS ADAMS In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Could be. I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.”
“Yeah,” said the voice from...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Don't Panic.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things wi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you m...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet g...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly Arthur had a fairly clear idea ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Experience is the best teacher.
PENELOPE DOUGLAS You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
DOUGLAS ADAMS A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
DOUGLAS PAGELS Reality is frequently inaccurate.
DOUGLAS ADAMS He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whethe...
DOUGLAS ADAMS And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies a...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest iron...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND