"I had a tough time 12 years ago getting 'Driving Miss Daisy' off the ground. Today, it would be impossible."

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Source : "Read or Listen to the YES MAN Press Conference with Producers David Heyman, Richard Zanuck and director Peyton Reed". YES MAN Press Conference, collider.com. December 17, 2008.

Richard D. Zanuck

#Years Quotes #Missing Quotes #Tough Times Quotes

“Everybody has a home team: It's the people you call when you get a flat tire or when something terrible happens. It's the people who, near or far, know everything that's wrong with you and love you anyways. These are the ones who tell you their secrets, who get themselves a glass of water without asking when they're at your house. These are the people who cry when you cry. These are your people, your middle-of-the-night, no-matter-what people.”
“Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man.”
“You have a heart of gold and I am kneeling in your bloodstream panning for the only thing that has ever felt like home.”
“I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.”
“Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.”

Source : Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
“Does anyone really imagine for a moment that my wife gives two stuffs about global warming? She certainly did not appear to be all that bothered on Thursday evening when, during the great carbon-saving switch-off, I ran round the house furiously turning on every light, hair dryer, dishwasher and toaster.”
“It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses who pulled off the American Revolution.”

Source : William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.177, William H. Calvin
“Want of passion is, I think, a very striking characteristic of Americans, not unrelated to their predilection for violence. For very few people truly have a passionate desire to achieve, and violence serves as a kind of substitute.”

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