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Richard D. Zanuck Quotes

I had a tough time 12 years ago getting 'Driving Miss Daisy' off the ground. Today, it would be impossible.

Richard D. Zanuck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Today Time Impossible Tough Driving

Low-wage jobs have gone offshore. We need to innovate to stay competitive.

Need Competitive Gone Stay Innovate

An awful lot of food is thrown away. This you can call a spillover. It doesn't sort of enter into our economic system because it's a consequence of running things in a highly competitive way: the free market, global pricing and so on.

Food Free You Way System Market

I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe.

Stephen Cole Kleene

Ideas Church Europe Got Sure Trip

I couldn't be a director because I couldn't put up with the actors. I don't have the patience. Why, I'd probably kill the actors. Not to mention some of the beautiful actresses.

Patience Beautiful Why Director Up

I don't like to be noticed. The older I've got, the more reclusive I've become. I've got late-onset shyness. People are lovely. When they see me in the street, they don't ask for anything from me. They just say: 'I thought it was you, and I just wanted to say how much I enjoy your books,' but I can't seem to cope with it anymore.

People Me Thought Enjoy You Street

Sri Lanka is an island that everyone loves at some level inside themselves. A very special island that travellers, from Sinbad to Marco Polo, dreamed about. A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry.

Romesh Gunesekera

Poetry Place Kind Island Land Level

I am happy with the way I hit the ball. There is a certain element of power into it but not completely. It is like 80 per cent timing and 20 per cent power. Why do I need power hitting when I can clear the ropes with timing?

Power I Am Happy I Am Happy I Can

Apple, iTunes, and streaming services have made the single a more easy thing to access. What that's done has made the album as a collection of songs almost meaningless. But an album that has a concept or story or reason to be an album, if anything, has more meaning now than it ever has.

Story Meaning Easy Apple Done Now

I've always felt very blessed and lucky in the world, and I have great compassion for people who struggle to get through the day.

Michael T. Weiss

Great Day Struggle Compassion People

Speaking and singing were equally common in my house. I started songwriting about the time that I started forming sentences.

Time Singing House Songwriting About

When you're willing to be vulnerable, you can surprise yourself at how strong you can be.

Jonathan Van Ness

Yourself Strong Surprise You Willing

New Orleans taught me that mourning takes many different forms. Where I'm from, mourning is spirited. It is loud.

Me New New Orleans Where Different

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