"My father did think I should get interested in television. But I had very little interest in television and it wasn't something I wanted to do. I really never thought about going to work on big feature films in Hollywood. But when we made The Householder, Columbia Pictures bought it. Who would have ever imagined?"

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

James Ivory

#Father Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Film Quotes

“Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.”
“My dad died in May of '97. The effects of his death immediately were not all that hard, but a year or two later it hit, when my job as Dad was sort of done and I was sending my kids to college. And somehow, the emotional intensity of that event mixed with the loss of my own dad, was kind of upsetting.”
“Unfortunately, to succeed in business, organizations need to make difficult choices all the time-what to do and, more important, what not to do. The truth of the matter is that whenever we make a difficult choice, some people will win and some will lose. The winners will be happy and the losers unhappy. It's impossible to make everybody happy all the time. If everybody in your organization is happy, that may be because you're failing to lead them.”
“Some of them are wearing skirts that I'm pretty sure are supposed to be belts.”

Source : Adam Selzer (2010). “I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It”, p.14, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger ***** than I am, but I've chosen not to be.”
“Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but on the federal government. The government, and those who ran it, were not placed outside the law, but expressly targeted by it. Indeed, the Bill of Rights is little more than a description of the lines that the most powerful political officials are barred from crossing, even if they have the power to do so and even when the majority of citizens might wish them to do so.”
“When the New Deal programs were passed in the mid 1930s, millions of workers were joining unions, striking, and occupying factories to fight for a better life. It was this radical labor movement that forced the establishment to make concessions.”

Source : Source: www.socialistalternative.org
“American people aren't interested in the procedural analysis. What they want is an up and down vote. They deserve an up and down vote on health care.”

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