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• I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

  Jackie Chan

  Drama, Directors, Hollywood

  "Jackie Chan Enjoys Seeing Nations Hit By Natural Disasters?". www.inquisitr.com. October 24, 2013.

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• I just think there are a lot of celebrities who don't feel that they have a voice. A lot of actors come from a place of fear, and that's just a general statement about actors. You're terrified the casting director won't like you, you're terrified the producer won't like you, you're terrified the director won't like you, and on and on.

  George Clooney

  Thinking, Voice, Directors

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• It doesn't matter if they're in front of the camera or behind the camera. I know women who are producers who are surviving on nothing but juice and almonds.

  Diablo Cody

  Cameras, Juice, Almonds

  "Diablo Cody Thinks Lena Dunham Is ‘Our New Woody Allen’" by Lori Fradkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2013.

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• Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.

  J. Cole

  Song, Taken, Risk

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• January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Evil, Theatre, Months

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• I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them.

  Kent Conrad

  Support, Leader, World

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• When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

  Dane Cook

  Directors, Comedy, Sometimes

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• When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the financiers, the studio and the producers and also, many times, the foreign distributors. So it is a time of tremendous pressure and uncertainty.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  People, Pressure, Initials

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• I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.

  Billy Corgan

  Thinking, Conventional

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• Hollywood has known this for quite a while: Cable is the place to go because they truly have a supportive network and they want to do things that cannot be seen on broadcast. That stimulates the writer-producer. Cable is king.

  Bryan Cranston

  Kings, Supportive, Hollywood

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• I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.

  John Cusack

  Way, Aspect, Filmmaker

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. November 27, 2007.

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• Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Imagination, Innovation, Vision

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• On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Belle, Protective, Hard

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• Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure.

  Jared Diamond

  Country, Coffee, Effort

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• The 'Degrassi' producers were very supportive. They sent me flowers when I got 'The Vampire Diaries,' and then as soon as it premiered and got the great numbers that it did, I got another large bouquet of flowers from them. Every time I go back to Toronto, I see them and hang out with them.

  Nina Dobrev

  Flower, Numbers, Supportive

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• In the best of all worlds, the producers would take some responsibility for the kinds of things they're putting out. Unfortunately, they don't.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Responsibility, World, Kind

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

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• I'd been a housewife and mother to our son Thomas Jefferson, and I was looking for a new career. So when my agent called and said a producer named Paul Elliott from E&B productions, the biggest panto company in the country at the time, wanted to meet me I agreed.

  Britt Ekland

  Country, Mother, Son

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• The only person who really impressed me with making new music is Cudi. Everyone else seems to be jumping on the same music, the producer-made stuff, but the one person that's made new music to me is Cudi.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Jumping, Stuff, Made

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• Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.

  Al Franken

  People, Comedian, Pressure

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, progressive.org. July 2, 2009.

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• Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright?

  Morgan Freeman

  Jobs, Titles, Asking

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• I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.

  Ace Frehley

  Albums, Records, Helping

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• Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.

  Noel Gallagher

  Song, Moving, Guitar

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• Since I met Starsmith, my producer, I really feel like I'm making music because we write it together and produce it together. I've got a proper involvement in the end product as opposed to just writing a song and finding someone else to produce it.

  Ellie Goulding

  Song, Writing, Together

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

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• I said no to the Born Survivor producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.

  Bear Grylls

  Men, Three, Survivor

  "Question time". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2008.

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• Acting still rings my bell as much as it did in high school. Plus, I can now indulge my interests as a producer as well. My work is more fun than fun but, best of all, it's still very scary. You are always walking some kind of high wire.

  Tom Hanks

  Fun, School, Scary

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