Richard D. Zanuck Quotes

'Portnoy's Complaint' was very far out there, and movies have always worked when you have either a funny situation between two or more people or a very dramatic situation. There's not that much difference.

Richard D. Zanuck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: producer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 13, 1934 - July 13, 2012

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Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

John B. S. Haldane

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I'm not crazy about oysters and offal and brains and stuff like that. It's vegetables that I really like. I worked in the River Cafe restaurant when it first opened, and I used to eat the leftover vegetables on the plates. They were so delicious.

Anna Chancellor

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I think about what 10-year-old Tony would want that 40-year-old Tony can make.

Tony DiTerlizzi

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I've never believed it's a fiction writer's job to create an exact replica of the past, a diorama the reader can step right into. But it is my responsibility to learn everything of the world I'm writing about, to become an expert in the politics and history that formed my characters' identities.

Molly Antopol

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I was 5 years old when the stock market crashed; I lost everything.

Dick Van Dyke

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Time is bunk.

Douglas Adams

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When I was born, my dad was a scaffolder, and my mum worked in a chip shop. Then my mum taught herself how to be a hairdresser and ended up with her own salon; my dad became a postman and then a counter clerk. Our first house didn't have a bathroom.

Timothy Spall

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I haven't isolated myself. I am not living on a yacht somewhere. I am not tucked away or behind a gate somewhere. I am not flying on a private plane. I am going to the airport, I am with people, some of the interactions are good, some of them are not so good, but it keeps me in touch with being, you know, part of society.

Nicolas Cage

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I think that in our part of the world, Scandinavia, we are one of the pioneers of showing that gastronomy can be something - high gastronomy can be something very, very present and doesn't have to involve, you know, what is perceived as the normal luxury items that belong in a high gastronomy restaurant.

Rene Redzepi

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There is usually a long interval between important scientific discoveries and impact on human health.

Mark Walport

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On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned.

Lionel Blue

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Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

James Weldon Johnson

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