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Otto Preminger Quotes

What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: austrian
Birth: December 5, 1905 - April 23, 1986

Topics

You Frame Counts Put

It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.

End Civilization Gum Chewing Gum

There's a horrible fallacy that exists in the popular discussion of fiction these days: the idea that a successful central character need be 'likeable' or 'sympathetic'. It is surely more important that they be human, no? More crucial that they breathe?

Character Important More Human Need

'Dad, Dad, I'm getting married.' 'Sh-sh, don't say it. Nothing, nothing. Don't do anything.' So he honestly - 'cause he was taught don't celebrate - they'll take it away from you. And his parents were taught that, and his parents and parents' parents. Because if you did celebrate, and you were visible, it could be very, very dangerous.

Parents Celebrate You Dangerous Say

Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too.

Religion Thought Enemy Real Taliban

I've never worked in a retail store, but I did sell shoes at Gimme Shoes in San Francisco, a job I was fired from.

Shoes Job Never Fired Retail Sell

If you enjoy working with someone, you must work with them. Again and again and again. If you enjoy the atmosphere and your work, why should you stop yourself?

Work Yourself Someone Enjoy You Why

I think, for me, the goal was never really for my EPs to go mainstream. I think the intention of them was to create a little bit of buzz and to show my musicality because I wrote and produced the EPs myself. The goal was to experiment, with no rules.

Myself Me Think Rules Goal Create

Although the organizing logic of our nation's surveillance apparatus is invisibility and secrecy, its operations occupy the physical world.

World Logic Organizing Nation Our

I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.

Mother Home Myself I Am Waiting Mom

There's a tendency on the part of Americans, all of us, to say, 'Hey, the Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is gone, we don't have to worry about these guys again.' We always have to be worried about them, we always have to be concerned about them, and we have to be well-informed.

War Cold Worry Say Over Cold War

You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal.

Great Smart Enough You Up May

Original 'Dallas' fans, please come back, because it's the same show 20 years later - same drama.

Back Drama Same Years Fans Original

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