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Don Cornelius Quotes

When I have a job to do, time means nothing. I lose patience with people who work on a clock.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: September 27, 1936

Topics

Work Patience Time Job People Lose

Realistically, it's the great truism that screenwriters are fungible, that at the end of the day a studio is not going to want to fire a movie star. And they're really not going to want to fire a star director because the director has the hand on the tiller of a ship.

Great Day Fire Ship End Want

Having been in football all my life as a player and a coach and having been on the sideline, I think the closer we can get to bringing people what it's like standing and watching the game on the sideline, with a better view, would be the perfect situation for television football.

Life Football People Game Better

Life's the adventure. You don't have to drop your bundle and go bush. It's about being brave within the context that you're in.

Life Adventure Brave You Go Within

My grandmother is one of the biggest inspirations of my life. She was my biggest fan, and she made sure everybody knew it. Her never-ending joy was infectious, and there wasn't anyone who could beat her at partying and having fun.

Life Fun Joy Having Fun My Life She

Anytime you do something different, a lot of attention gets put on it.

Attention You Something Different

I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they don't care about the genre.

Michel Hazanavicius

Funny Freedom Great Care Movies Own

If those of us who care about making our own decisions about what to read and what to think don't take a stand, others will decide for us.

Think Care Stand Decisions Will Own

I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on 'The Purge' was crucial to that movie working.

Think Important Location Working

Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.

Me Building Trying Bar Empire Soap

I always want to be the best at what I do. That doesn't mean compared to other people, but just in what you do.

Best People You Want Mean Always

If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month.

Win You Go Office Month Get

Ads sway kids' preferences. Star athletes spokespeople sway kids' preference.

Star Kids Preference Athletes Ads

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