There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.
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GARY F EVANS... It's ironic that when you go through a tragedy, you appreciate more. You realize how fragile lif...
ADAM GRANT if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
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LEONARDO DICAPRIO When you're a pop star, it's a little conservative; you always have to stay in a box. You ha...
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BETHANY JOY LENZ All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
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COLSON WHITEHEAD In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't...
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EVAN ROSS How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS When somebody is making a movie about your life, that's different. A show is a live performance....
FRANKIE VALLI The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uraniu...
BILL GATES I wanna do movies that in ten years time people will respect me for, as an actor. So if I do take tw...
FRANKIE MUNIZ Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS Be patient - if something is supposed to happen, it's going to happen. Whenever I've tried t...
CHIARA FERRAGNI It is a lie.
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CASEY ABRAMS There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you'r...
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ALISON ELLIOTT I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'l...
JOSS WHEDON Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
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ZIYI ZHANG Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go...
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RUSSELL CROWE When you are true to yourself, you will find yourself more easily able to pursue the things that mat...
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE Whenever there's negotiations, there's things that you absolutely love, and there's thin...
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HANNIBAL BURESS A good horror movie - it doesn't matter how many comedy horror films there have been before. Doe...
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ADAM SCOTT There are so many things to say; so many things that can't really be said.
So much has happene...
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JOSHUA BELL There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that ...
WALTER BECKER I would like to perform more in English. But there have to be many good things gathered for me to be...
LUDIVINE SAGNIER The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called 'new mor...
BILLY GRAHAM I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one...
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DAVID BENIOFF I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great li...
LOIS LOWRY I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to...
VERUSCHKA VON LEHNDORFF There's not one film that I've ever made that could get made today by a studio, not one - ev...
ROB REINER Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
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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ZAHA HADID There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, ...
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MARCUS DU SAUTOY Our film society back home is so different from here. Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie...
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EDGAR RAMIREZ When you take things too seriously, you get old. You have to be silly. Whenever people say, 'Hey...
RICKY MARTIN It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.
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AIMEE MANN If you have a flop movie, so what? And if you have a hit movie, it's 'so what,' too - it...
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JIM PARSONS There are so many things that can go wrong and so many hidden costs.
TIM CARTER I like things that are hand made - but personally for a man, I'm not interested in fashion that ...
ROMAN COPPOLA There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and...
MARY J. BLIGE Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS Somehow we have a lot of hope still. We're praying for a miracle, and we are asking for a miracle, a...
TOM SMART Sometimes it's the lead, but there are not always leads out there, so then it's an interesti...
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