Michael Mann Quotes

There's people who live life authentically and there's people who live a life of fabrication. And it begins with the question of how you're gonna do your time. And these are observations I made about Folsom when I was there with Dustin Hoffman when he was directing 'Straight Time.'

Michael Mann

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
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  • Birth: February 5, 1943

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I think I probably have the philosophy of a poor man. You know, like maybe I'd steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes.

John Cassavetes

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The wine world is so big. Yes, there are styles of wines I don't like. Orange wine, natural wines and low-alcohol wines. Truth is on my side, and history will prove I am right.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

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I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

Jean Kerr

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I've never been interested in philosophy, but some of Jung's ideas seem useful in helping people understand pictures and so forth.

Sigmar Polke

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With Bayern Munich, we had a lot of problems against Dortmund, always.

Toni Kroos

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If I bring anything to the Coen Brothers' films, it's my ability to change tack and create a different mood from film to film.

Roger Deakins

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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

Michel de Montaigne

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Threat is in the eye of the beholder.

Mohamed ElBaradei

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Dad would come home from doing odd jobs, and sometimes he'd come home late at night with lumber, and he'd rumble around with all this wood in our small place. We'd finish putting it away, and then we'd play that piano. I'll be eternally grateful to him.

Johnny Mathis

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I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.

Dick Wolf

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Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.

William Peter Blatty

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I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world.

Peter Jennings

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