D. A. Pennebaker Quotes

When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.

D. A. Pennebaker

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At MGM, you knew you were going to be working next year; you knew you were going to get paid. But I was too ambitious musically to settle for it. And I wanted to gamble with whatever talent I might have had.

Andre Previn

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There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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I love going to see musicals. That was one of the major reasons why losing the chance to produce 'La La Land' was so painful.

Jason Blum

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I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions.

Jared Diamond

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I don't like speaking publicly when I don't have to be funny.

Chelsea Handler

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Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

Colin Powell

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I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

Clement Attlee

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I think I've been an incredible example to my kids of what not to do.

Woody Harrelson

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I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.

William Friedkin

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From the rugged cliffs of Cape Liptrap peninsula jutting bravely into the swells of Bass Strait, the coast arcs southeast, hugging the waters of Waratah Bay with sweeping flat lines of fine pale sand and knotty scrub.

Tim Cope

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I don't think there's room in video games for people to bring an ego. It's very frustrating for any actor to have someone who's a celebrity take over your place. Like the 'Uncharted' film, they're trying to find someone to play Nathan Drake. And it's like, why do they not think of us? We do this.

Nolan North

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I would find the idea of compiling a setlist that doesn't wildly excite me to be too restricting.

Morrissey

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