"I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story, change the name of the characters, change the name of the town, and make an entirely different picture."

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Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Howard Hawks

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“America Singer, you get back here." He ran in front of me, wrapping an arm around my waist as we stood, chest to chest. "Tell me," he whispered. I pinched my lips together. "Fine, then I shall have to rely on other means of communication." Without any warning, he kissed me.”
“Washington, of course, aside from being one of the most mismanaged, crime-ridden cities on the planet, is a place where 535 federal legislators and about 38,000 lobbyists work at confiscating and redistributing the incomes of the American people.”
“I'm single, so I'm trying to do an overall overhaul. The look I'm going for is very '80s supermodel. It's time to be sexy.”
“The counsel on public relations is not an advertising man but he advocates for advertising where that is indicated. Very often he is called in by an advertising agency to supplement its work on behalf of a client. His work and that of the advertising agency do not conflict with or duplicate each other.”
“Only when we have enough mental stress to force us to see our own bankruptcy of power, do we trust in God, and only when we trust in God can we make a contribution which will not collapse.”
“I don't know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits childred to be destroyed.”

Source : Daniel Berrigan, Nhá̂t Hạnh (Thích) (1975). “The Raft Is Not the Shore: Conversations Toward a Buddhist-Christian Awareness”, Beacon Press (MA)
“And what amazes me as I hit the motorway is not the fact that everyone loses someone, but that everyone loves someone. It seems like such a massive waste of energy -- and we all do it, all the people beetling along between the white lines, merging, converging, overtaking. We each love someone, even though they will die. And we keep loving them, even when they are not there to love any more. And there is no logic or use to any of this, that I can see.”
“If a man wants to be an artist, he should never look at pictures.”

Source : Winslow Homer, Lloyd Goodrich, Whitney Museum of American Art (1973). “Winslow Homer”

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