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Don Simpson Quotes

To make money, it may be important to win the Academy Award, for it might mean another ten million dollars at the box office.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: producer
Nationality: american
Birth: October 29, 1943 - January 19, 1996

Topics

Money Win Award Important Office

The things I like to do involve a lot of mental focus, a combination of physical and mental challenge. That is what mountain climbing is.

John M. Grunsfeld

Challenge Focus Mountain Things Like

So you might say, 'Why do you end up making theatre in a world in which there is already too much of that? Creating layer upon layer of artifice?' Perhaps the function is to pierce through that cloud and show reality - so the function of art is to make things - to show: 'Hang on, this is real.'

Art Theatre World Reality End You

Fatherhood didn't change me in the beginning very much.

Change Beginning Me Fatherhood Much

I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.

Love Me Game Statistics Ask Keep

What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Say Jesus Christ Christ He Jesus

I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.

Michelle Shocked

Music Myself World End Look Career

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

Change Technology Think Expensive

While on the space station, I kept up with news a couple of ways - Mission Control sent daily summaries, and I would scan headlines on Google News when we had an Internet connection, which was about half the time.

Daily Time Space Control Internet

A film can reach only the places which the distributor has promised you. Several films are not released internationally, and Web has that wide reach.

Reach You Places Film Web Only

I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme smallness of the variations in the period of oscillation.

First Out Point Theory Difficulty

My guiding principle and motivation was that I wanted to retire by the time I turned 35. There actually are two books that I bought and still have - Paul Terhost's 'Cashing In On the American Dream: How to Retire at 35' and Andrew Tobias's 'The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need' - that were my personal financial road map.

Time American Dream Road American

I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess a lot of it came from being taught at school.

Music School Voice Choir Theory

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