"I've struggled seriously to make movies with very little money, that I write, that I direct, that mean my life to me. The idea that I would offer a part to anyone for any other reason than that he or she was gonna be the best of anyone I could find is so disgusting to me. I don't give my best friends parts unless they deserve them. Ever."

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Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com

James Toback

#Writing Quotes #Mean Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.”
“It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.”

Source : "Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini, Nobel Winner, Dies at 103" by Benedict Carey, www.nytimes.com. December 30, 2012.
“Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.”
“I think it's better to be a woman with some curves. It's more natural.”

Source : "The Saturday interview: Dukan diet creator Pierre Dukan". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.
“I cant sprinkle sprinkles on. I lose control when I have sprinkles. Im shaky. I still remember the great sprinkle accident of 1982.”
“It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.”
“No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the nightbirds will start singing.”
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”

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