"I make my pictures for people, not for critics."

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

Cecil B. DeMille

#People Quotes #Critics Quotes

“Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.”

Source : Tryon Edwards (1853). “The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors”, p.356
“I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.”
“During the first World War women in the United States had a chance to try their capacities in wider fields of executive leadershipin industry. Must we always wait for war to give us opportunity? And must the pendulum always swing back in the busy world of work and workers during times of peace?”
“The way to get things done is to stimulate competition. I do not mean in a sordid, money-getting way, but in the desire to excel.”
“Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading "Confused.”
“Power is getting things done without having to demonstrate that you can bulldoze it through. I'm most effective when I've studied an issue, when I can make a credible argument, and then bring people along.”

Source : "What I've Learned: Representative Donna Edwards (D, Md.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 15, 2010.
“Twenty years after the Andy Griffith Show when Andy did Matlock, he hired me for four episodes. I told him I wanted to develop an Aunt Bea type role for Matlock, but he was against it. I did appear on other popular TV shows, like Family Affair, My Three Sons, Barnaby Jones and Little House on the Prairie.”
“You put me in a race where there's a lot on the line, especially when people tell me 'you can't win', or 'you're too small', you tell me those things and I'll find a way to prove you wrong.”

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