Ron Fournier Quotes

'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible.

Ron Fournier

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It's not a crime to get drunk.

Joe Bob Briggs

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You have to have an attitude that nothing's gonna stop me. I think that's just my New York kind of attitude - survival of the fittest.

Melissa De Sousa

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One of the crucial things to the story of 'Harry Potter's' success is just how well everyone got on. There were never any problems with anybody.

Matthew Lewis

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Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.

Matthew Modine

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He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not.

Matthew Sweet

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Everybody has to write out of rage sometimes.

Amy Clampitt

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I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Steve Jobs

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Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.

Ron Livingston

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The people that matter to me the most are the people that are in my life. That's who I really learn from, and it's always a very personal kind of connection.

Missy Peregrym

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Some people are attracted to vulnerability. From my very first album, I've been vulnerable. I've always given parts of me, parts of my life - good, bad, ugly. I've never put up this image as a super-thug. Also, some people just like the music.

Jay-Z

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Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of the few guys I know who's really famous. One minute he's talking to the president on his cell phone, and then the next minute he's saying to me, 'Do you think we ought to give the waiter another dollar?'

Don Rickles

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Instead of incentivizing quick, short-term decisions, the federal government should be asking the tough questions when governments turn over publicly funded transportation assets to for-profit operators.

Dick Durbin

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