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Michael Cimino Quotes

'Deer Hunter' is a movie; it is not an attempt to write history.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: February 3, 1939 - July 2, 2016

Topics

History Deer Write Hunter Attempt

To be in something as iconic as a Dracula film, and to be playing Jessica van Helsing, who would have been Dracula's choice for a bride, through history and beyond the grave, was a thrill.

History Bride Choice Beyond Playing

Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an influential book by Harold Bloom. 'The Anxiety of Influence', published in 1973 when I was five years old, is taken up with the terrifying influence of poets on each other.

Influence Book Anxiety Dreamer Long

There are so many traps, so many ways of getting screwed in this business.

Business Screwed Many Ways Getting

There is nothing like the indignity of not fitting into a roller coaster.

Nothing Roller Coaster Like Fitting

Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.

Work America You Down Situation

You can either look at things in a brutal, truthful way that's depressing, or you can screw around and have fun.

Fun Have Fun You Look Way Things

I drew a lot of inspiration from the Ginuwines, the Ushers, the Michael Jacksons, the James Browns, Sam Cooke.

Inspiration Sam Drew Sam Cooke James

We were spending American blood and treasure to liberate the people of Afghanistan from one of the most brutal regimes on the face of the earth. That we would not use that moment to press for women's rights seems to me unthinkable.

Condoleezza Rice

Women Moment People Me Face Earth

In true open source development, there's lots of visibility all the way through the development process.

Brian Behlendorf

Process True Development Way Open

Fashion Week is like Christmas.

Fashion Week Christmas Like

When I first discovered for myself the Celtic Twilight and read the earlier poems of Yeats and others, all was entirely incomprehensible to me. I groped through a mist of blurred meanings, stumbled through lines in which every accent seemed to be in the wrong place.

Myself Me Wrong Place Others First

Reflection makes men cowards.

William Hazlitt

Reflection Men Cowards Makes

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