Paul Morrissey Quotes

If I thought about planning, I'd plan movies. If I thought about planning my life, I'd plan my life more rationally, not like New Yorkers who live their lives so irrationally, without reason. Maybe that's the connection between my movies and New York: the movies have the same kind of lack of overall design.

Paul Morrissey

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Jim Backus

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The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

Melissa Leo

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When I purchased my home, it was very strict underwriting standards. I had to provide two pay stubs, two years' tax returns, three months of bank statements, all sorts of credit card information.

John Paulson

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You can't do business with a man who doesn't know the meaning of a contract. You can't do business with a firm who swears they'll do one thing one day and does just the opposite the next. You can't do business with a company who takes your goods on a cash basis and then pays you off in bum harmonicas.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Movies are hard work. The public doesn't see that. The critics don't see it. But they're a lot of work. A lot of work.

Robert De Niro

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I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.

Rose McGowan

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Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here.

Ruth Brown

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If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?

Jon Voight

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Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.

Dennis Franz

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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With real estate, it's location, location, location. In public speaking, it's acoustics, acoustics, acoustics.

Christopher Buckley

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Ask me whether inflation represents longer-term problem. I think there's a potential there for excess reserves to create problems.

Arthur Laffer

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