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“Hollywood is running out of money and in order to keep geetting a third financed, you have to rely on overseas funding, and in order to do that, you have to get recognizable names.”
Source : "Romany Malco Chats w/ S&A About “Think Like A Man,” Picking Projects, Black Cinema & More!". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. May 7, 2012.
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“It sounds clichéd, but I think the greatest lesson is to not take things personally.”
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“Once when I looked up, I happened to see a sea eagle poised on magesterial wings above the knurled summit of the mountain behind my tent. It was a scene of peerless tranquility, tossed out in Nautre's devil-may-care way, which says: Just open your eyes, my friend, and I'll astonish you every minute of your life.”
Source : Lawrence Millman, Paul Theroux (2000). “Last Places: A Journey in the North”, p.147, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“You always have to write script with a budget in mind. Although it's always good to write the big story, you really have to think about how things are going to work as far as cast, effects and settings. It's a process. You have to always think budget and then execute and make it happen.”
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“I would like to like to make one thing clear at the very outset and that is, when you speak of a train robbery, this involved no loss of train, merely what I like to call the contents of the train, which were pilfered. We haven't lost a train since 1946, I believe it was - the year of the great snows when we mislaid a small one.”
Source : Peter Cook, William Cook (2013). “Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Comedy of Peter Cook”, p.53, Random House
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“The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us in the future. Learning should not only take us somewhere; it should allow us later to go further more easily.”
Source : "Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School". Book by Ted Sizer, p. 95, 1984.
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“I'd never been a good damsel in distress. I was a "hands-on" damsel.”
Source : Jennifer Armintrout (2007). “Blood Ties Book Two: Possession”, p.106, MIRA
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“I admire artists who are ageing and still retaining their edge.”
Source : "Portrait of the artist: Paul McGann, actor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 03, 2009.