Lee Rich Quotes

Just because you're big doesn't mean you're going to be successful. The beauty of the motion picture business is that you can make a little movie like 'Driving Miss Daisy' or 'Rain Man' and go right through the roof. This business is still about creative juices, and size is no guarantee of that.

Lee Rich

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: producer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 19, 1918 - May 24, 2012

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Sometimes, you get tired of fighting. I think you just sort of come to this realization that yes, that you will get tired, but that doesn't mean that you can give up the fight.

Jesmyn Ward

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I can move my characters through it easily, because I understand the background; I've really studied it.

Jean M. Auel

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I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

Amy Winehouse

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I am a happy person, especially off the field, outside of football.

Alvaro Morata

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I walked in, looked around, and the navy recruiter was a really hot brunette, so I signed up with her.

Sturgill Simpson

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I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, 'What for?' I said, 'I'm going to buy some sugar.'

Steven Wright

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Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'

Martin Scorsese

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I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.

Joseph Heller

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It's one of the things I want people to understand about science... You don't have to be the best person in the world at it. But you can be good, and there are so many different opportunities in science.

Anne Wojcicki

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Pop managers are fixed in the dramatic stock character repertoire too, ever since the first British pop film musical, Wolf Mankowitz's 'Expresso Bongo' of 1959, with Cliff Richard as Bongo Herbert and Laurence Harvey as his manager. The key components were cast as X parts gay, X parts Jewish and triple X opportunistic.

Peter York

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Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.

Richard Holbrooke

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The last thing I would have ever expected to happen to me in my life would be that, in fact, I would be accused of doing something wrong and maybe even something criminal.

Kenneth Lay

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