"I wouldn't write any kind of book without a contract and an advance. You can't invest that amount of time and effort without one."

-- Harrison Salisbury

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“We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.”
“I look at the script first and who's directing it and then talk to the director to find out what his vision of the movie is and if it matches my vision and then we go after it.”
“And oh! I shall find how, day by day, All thoughts and things look older; How the laugh of pleasure grows less gay, And the heart of friendship colder.”

Source : Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1852). “Lillian: And Other Poems”, p.214
“Success makes you less intimidated by things.”
“I think if people who are attacking me or against me, if they would just watch one of my films, they would - they may not agree with me politically on all the things I'm saying. But they will know at the end of the film that I love this country and that I have a heart. And they'll have a good laugh throughout the film.”
“Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows the caprice of the human mind. What did I say! It is not a Science for a methodical mind. It is a shapeless assemblage of inaccurate ideas, of observations often puerile, of deceptive remedies, and of formulae as fantastically conceived as they are tediously arranged.”
“I am anti-social and have a dark personality. I have no redeeming qualties and nothing to offer, therefore I could never have what I wanted”
“We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?”

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