Quotes 541 till 560 of 666.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
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There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
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There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment - anywhere.
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There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
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There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
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There's no point in making films unless you intend to show us something special, otherwise just go out and watch a play.
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This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.
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This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films.
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To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it.
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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
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To me the supreme aim is an act of faith and reason to make one rejoice in the midst of tragedy.
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To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.
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To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.
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