Douglas Sirk Quotes

Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films.

Douglas Sirk

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: April 26, 1897 - January 14, 1987

Topics

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If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that.

John Lone

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So many of my friends and family will go to Palm Springs as their weekend getaway destination, but when I need a break from Los Angeles, I'll head to Joshua Tree instead. There's something so magical about the energy of the Mojave Desert.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

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If the team needs to score, I'm going to score. If the team needs me to rebound, I'm going to rebound. Play defense, I play defense.

Michael Beasley

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Losing my mum. That was a punch-me moment.

Stella McCartney

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Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

Tony Snow

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I love to play my music. That's what my heart wants me to do is to play music, and I love doing that when I got my band and my crew and all those folks with me, and that whole thing cranks up; it's really something to enjoy.

Ronnie Milsap

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I want to be remembered as, I hope, an amazing husband and a great father.

Jason Momoa

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My real last name is Flores, and Milian is actually my mom's maiden name. So it's not made up, which is cool; it runs in the family. And it actually worked out better for my career to have the last name Milian, because Flores kept me in a little box, and no one really associated me with the last name Flores.

Christina Milian

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Maybe it's my Catholic upbringing - I grew up thinking that Armageddon was just around the corner - now I know it is, with global warming and all. I can keep it at bay by doing the work. It's a sort of reverse sympathetic magic. I'm always doing it so it doesn't happen to me.

Cornelia Parker

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I need theatre for my equilibrium because in theatre, the actors don't care so much about image, about celebrity; you are more independent.

Clotilde Hesme

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In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.

Bonnie Raitt

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That's the kind of TV I like to watch, where you just don't know what's going to happen.

Annie Parisse

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