People Quotes - Page 30

• A talking dog is not the answer. That's not a way to convince people not to smoke pot. If animals started talking to me, I would up my pot consumption just to make that happen.

  Doug Benson

  Dog, Animal, Talking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I never send a story off until I have read it aloud to at least two or three people. Because when I read - and I don't need their criticism, what I need is my own - when I read it aloud, there is a flow, there is a poetry to it.

  Harlan Ellison

  Two, Criticism, Three

  "Harlan Ellison, Part Two". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 08, 2008.

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• And often when things turn to TV series there are so many different people with different agendas that things can morph. And so, you know, that was why having the executive producer title was important to me because even if I was the star and I had a concern, you know, that concern would only go so far. But having the title of executive producer actually makes them have to actually listen to me complain.

  Debra Messing

  Stars, Important, Titles

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I am not one of these people who instantly takes umbrage when he's corrected or - I love being corrected.

  Harlan Ellison

  Love Is

  "Harlan Ellison, Part Two". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 08, 2008.

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• I'm concerned that the world is a mess. That's why when I wrote my last book, Let's Face It, I dedicated it to the younger generation because, let's face it, the world is in a mess. Right now, the young people will inherit that mess. I think we have to do everything we can.

  Kirk Douglas

  Book, Thinking, Generations

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

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• I think that [Barack] Obama was elected because young people are starting to get interested in their country and I think that's a very healthy thing.

  Kirk Douglas

  Country, Thinking, Healthy

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I cannot pay attention to what people say about my work. For me, personally, I am just this shards-and-ashes human being, who really gets upset when someone says something bad about me. If it's true, I cop to it. If I have any good qualities, it's that.

  Harlan Ellison

  Upset, Quality, Ashes

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 8, 2008.

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• Oh Young Frankenstein - that's right, Body Heat, Raiders Of The Lost Ark. I mean, you know, it - they just keep going on and on and on - Mission: Impossible. And, you know, I think that the writers are having so much fun now with them that, you know, half the time, you know, people are just sitting around saying - trying to think of what's a great movie to copy.

  Debra Messing

  Fun, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Drinking, London, God Bless

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Writing a screen play with a group of collaborators is like the Lennon McCartney collaboration .... sometimes one or two people do more than others on certain parts of the process and vice versa.

  Peter Jackson

  Writing, Play, Two

  "Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro Answer Hobbit Questions". Online chat, www.slashfilm.com. May 24, 2008.

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• To people in my industry I'm usually a guy that tries to generate his own projects and I remain very elusive when people try and attach me to big projects.

  Peter Jackson

  Guy, Trying, Projects

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• You can see desperation in people who are too eager to laugh because they're in such a hurry not to look at what's confronting them in their lives and that's kind of sad because there's a kind of pornographic aspect to it, of making some sort of pain go away, of hovering around a pain, making yourself numb, not feel anything.

  Dylan Moran

  Pain, Laughing, Going Away

  "Dylan Moran Makes Sentences of Things". Interview with J.L. Sirisuk, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 13, 2013.

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• People are very adamant about maintaining a certain sound or a certain era, like, "There were three years of rap that were great, so let's just keep doing that." The genre itself is just stuck in place. It's been treading water for a while.

  Aesop Rock

  Rap, Years, Water

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Oh it's fantastic because I get to whip people like David into shape and tell them to go get me coffee. Kidding - okay.

  Debra Messing

  Coffee, Shapes, Fantastic

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Usually, those people don't even like actors and they can't wait until they get in the cutting room. They kind of break down in categories: directors who like to be surprised and some of them abhor being surprised. As far as directing, we all direct when we're acting in movies... every single one of us.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Cutting, Waiting, Acting

  "Quartet - Dustin Hoffman interview". Press conference, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• When I produced Spartacus, the writer was Dalton Trumbo, who spent a year in jail because he would not answer McCarthy's questions about other people. He submitted the picture under the false name of Sam Jackson.

  Kirk Douglas

  Years, Names, Jail

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

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• I started doing pot jokes, and I noticed that audiences invariably love pot jokes. Even people who don't smoke pot think it's a funny subject.

  Doug Benson

  Thinking, Pot, Audience

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When you get old the worst thing is you lose so many friends. Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne. People who I loved to work with.

  Kirk Douglas

  Wayne, Lancaster, Worst

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• It [going from mini-series to series] was never even discussed because it [The Starter Wife] was, you know, an adaptation of a novel. And we - the mini-series encompassed the whole novel. And so it was always going to be a finite sort of event. And then I imagine when people started to really respond to the show and then we got ten Emmy nominations, USA sort of said, "Oh, I think maybe we have something here."

  Debra Messing

  Thinking, Usa, Events

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• There's always - somehow a red carpet everywhere. And I think that, you know, it's a fantasyland out here, you know. It's beautiful. It's sunny all the time. You know, there are beautiful people everywhere because you're not allowed to cross the Los Angeles city lines unless you're beautiful or skinny - joking kind of.

  Debra Messing

  Beautiful, Thinking, Cities

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The thing about the state of hip-hop is that people are too concerned. I don't think that there's a problem with being too concerned about videogames, especially for me, because I'm not in the industry. I'm just a consumer. But hip-hop is constantly like, "What are you doing for the scene?"

  Aesop Rock

  Thinking, Hip Hop, Hips

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• With rock music, it usually revolves around the band. You go in as a band and probably take about a year to record an album. But for a hip-hop song, you can create a track and an idea with verses and choruses in a day, and get three different people on it. It seems like you're able to do more with hip-hop.

  Travis Barker

  Song, Ideas, Rocks

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I felt [It Runs in the Family] it was a picture that, after I'm gone, my family would like to see it. It was a wonderful mixture of people in my family.

  Kirk Douglas

  Running, Gone, Mixtures

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I've always loved playing in bands where there's like three or four people and we're all throwing out ideas and coming together to make an album.

  Travis Barker

  Ideas, Together, Albums

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I'm inspired by my faith of course, and all the different people around me.

  Laura Bush

  Different, Inspired, Different Peoples

  "A Conversation With Laura Bush: 'Education Is The Key'". Interview with Kevin M. Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2012.

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