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The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.


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MANNY MONTANA I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.
DANICA MCKELLAR I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something bec...
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EDWARD ZWICK It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.
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HENRY FORD It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
HENRY FORD He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
HENRY FORD Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
HENRY FORD Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching arou...
HENRY FORD A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.
HENRY FORD It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the w...
HENRY FORD I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it b...
HENRY FORD It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.
HENRY FORD A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
HENRY FORD Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
HENRY FORD You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to th...
HENRY FORD