Darryl F. Zanuck Quotes

Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

Darryl F. Zanuck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 5, 1902 - December 22, 1979

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I think a spell abroad for anybody is incredibly useful. It gives you a great sense of perspective, and you see other ways of doing things.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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Somebody saying something offensive to you or insulting to you is not pleasant, but it's part of life.

Megyn Kelly

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Our independence from AOL was so important to me that I negotiated an extremely odd provision in our purchase agreement that allowed me to disclose confidential information about AOL. It was their job never to give me that information. It was not my job to protect it in any way.

Michael Arrington

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I'm a dull person.

John Updike

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A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

Sophia Loren

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The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.

Jay Griffiths

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Failure is an extremely personal thing, and so is success. The problem with people is they don't own their failure, and if you don't own your failures, you're never going to own your successes.

Jon Taffer

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When they're growing up, if you tell kids God exists, they believe it. It's the same with the techno-cultural society. They believe in it - that it's the road to paradise, that there are no limits.

Douglas Tompkins

GodGrowing UpSocietyRoadBelieve

If you're showing people where it's smooth sailing, where is the joke? If you go back to any movie, even a conventional movie, with any comedians, they're either not terribly intelligent or they're not doing something well.

Christopher Guest

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We certainly strive for trying to make a quality record throughout, and I think that's true of all of our records.

Christopher Cross

QualityThinkTryingTrueStrive

I think politics come out of psychology.

Bruce Springsteen

PoliticsThinkPsychologyOutCome

I have many aspects of my game I need to improve, and that's what I am focusing on. I prefer not to say what they are in public - for me, it's a secret, and I just want to work hard.

Anthony Martial

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