Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
Alan Parker
Recitation: by Male by Female
Each year, we learn that customer service diminishes. You may argue it's because the IRS budget has been cut, but I'm going to argue that it's because the IRS chooses to spend its funds in other areas like the Affordable Care Act, bonuses, and conferences.
Ander Crenshaw
ServiceCareLearnCustomerYear
I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.
Robert Sheckley
SeriouslyNeverWriteHeroesAware
I'm very committed to and interested in CNN's journalism and our magazines and our movie studio, not just HBO, where I grew up. But I do have a fondness for subscription television.
Jeff Bewkes
JournalismTelevisionUpWhereJust
I'm one hundred percent Irish, and I'm very proud that I'm Irish American, though I don't know exactly where my ancestors came from. I just know County Cork.
Michael Connelly
ProudAmericanKnowAncestorsIrish
You don't look at each other on the subway.
Simon Pegg
YouLookSubwayOtherEach
I do not want to stay in Washington.
Trey Gowdy
WantWashingtonStay
I always tell my students to seek out other writers as models, and though it took me years to heed my own advice, it really was life-altering when I found writers who wrote long stories, full of back story and side plots and sub-histories.
Molly Antopol
MeStoryAdviceLongBackMy Own
Every actor wants to win an Oscar, full stop. It doesn't mean you try to design things around how to accomplish that because that's impossible.
Julia Roberts
WinImpossibleDesignYouAccomplish
The communities and countries best at using energy to optimize a microclimate for human life are also the ones whose people have the longest average lifespans. Canada, Sweden, and Iceland - places with inhospitable winter weather - are frontrunners in sustaining human health and life.
Chris Hadfield
LifeWinterHealthBestPeople
I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control.
Claude Chabrol
Black And WhiteColorsControlColor
I was 17 or 18 when 'The Twist' came along, and the rest is history. Sometimes I regret it. I would have gotten more into acting. I would have been more of a legitimate performer onstage like Liza Minnelli. But I got so caught up in the dance thing that I never got into theater.
Chubby Checker
HistoryDanceRestRegretActingUp
My own mother is very accomplished and makes things like bahar breads as though they are going out of fashion - they are like stuffed parathas and can contain anything from potatoes to poppy seeds.
Art Malik
MotherSeedsFashionMy OwnAnything
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