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“I did Lassie for six years and I never had anybody come up to me and say, 'It made me want to be a farmer.”

Want Years Made Six Come Up Farmers Lassie

“AC/DC, Def Leppard, Alice Cooper - I learned stories of all these guys. That's when I fell in love with Queen, which is one of my favorite bands of all time... I started paying attention to what made music good. I started paying attention to why I liked it.”

Made Stories Guy Attention Band My Favorite All Time Pay Attention Queens Favorite Bands

Author:Rico Love

“When my father made 'Jean de Florette' and 'Manon des Sources' back to back, everybody said, 'Why two movies?' But you need two movies to show how criminality evolves, and to tell the story: You can't show a man in love with so many women in one big biopic.”

Men Needs Made Said Two Stories Shows Bigs Father Source Evolve Criminality

Author:Thomas Langmann

“The impression of Pakistan is that people are corrupt. I don't think they are as corrupt as they are made out to be. I can look you in the eye and tell you I've never bribed anybody.”

People Thinking Looks Made I Can Eye Impression Pakistan

Author:Mian Muhammad Mansha

“I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.”

Made Sacrifice

Author:Karen McCarthy

“In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.”

Art Made Cruelty Distinction

Author:Maggie Nelson

“To a considerable extent we are faced by a technology arms race with terrorists. The communications revolution has made it easier for terrorist groups to reach out to vulnerable individuals with their violent extremist ideology and propaganda. It has also facilitated fundraising, recruitment and training.”

“I have always made commercial music. The people who vote for the Grammy nominees are mostly in their 40s and have other jobs or are musicians themselves. They like music that they can relate to - they like commercial music.”

People Made Jobs Musician Vote Relate Grammy Commercial Music

Author:Al Walser

“I know that plenty of folks have issues with Social Security, but I'd urge them to confront it on its own terms. Calling it a Ponzi scheme is misleading and does more to cloud the issue than it does to illuminate it. And yes, I do know that unless changes are made, the current system is unsustainable. But that doesn't mean it's fraud.”

Knows Mean Doe Made Social Term Issues Security Calling Clouds Folks Currents Plenty Urges Fraud Schemes Social Security Mislead Ponzi Scheme

Author:Mitchell Zuckoff

“According to my mother, there pretty much wasn't anything I wouldn't eat as a child.... I was even inclined to dig into stuff about which she expressed open disgust... cheap Chinese food with pepper so hot it made your gums feel like a medieval dentist had been at them.”

Feels Children Made Mother Stuff Hot Chinese Disgusting Medieval Dentist Gum Peppers Lobster Chinese Food

Author:Alice Domurat Dreger

“Just as war is waged with the blood of others, fortunes are made with other people's money.”

People Made War Wealth Blood Fortune

Author:Andre Suares

“We are made loveless by our possessions.”

Made Possession Loveless

Author:Elizabeth of Hungary

“It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.”

Art Made Would Be Age Difficult Fund This Day Slurs

Author:Jane Alexander

“These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.”

People World Made Book Song Around The World These Days Respectable Infamous

Author:Kinky Friedman

“In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now.”

Made Real Past Certain Effort Half News Aim Hearted Cosmetics Half Hearted

Author:Roone Arledge

“Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.”

Made Desire Emotion Team Hunger Chemistry Components

Author:Buzz Bissinger

“I feel that I can't do certain things that have sent to me, scripts, because I think that really - I've been June Cleaver for so many years, because we went back, you know, and we did - 20-year hiatus we had - and we went back and made 105 new ones. And so I really feel very strongly that there are certain things I won't do.”

Thinking Knows Feels Years Made I Can Certain Scripts Very Strong June Hiatus Cleaver

Author:Barbara Billingsley

“You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.”

Should Made Stuff Musician Rely Interviews Editors Factual

Author:Black Francis

“I don't want to do children's music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids - like when I'm putting them to bed. We sing some song that we made up but I don't want to make a record like that.”

Want Writing Children Made Kids Song Records Bed

Author:Black Francis

“Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests.”

Kind Made States Found Interest United Effort United States Evidence Iraq Communicate Contact Operations Als Collaboration Al Qaeda

Author:Richard Ben-Veniste

“What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself.”

Men Made States Past Heaven Results Hell Past Life Heaven Or Hell

Book:The Night Side of Nature: Or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers

Source: The Night Side of Nature: Or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers

“I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.”

Littles Long Made Father Memories Wonder Journey Car Train Vague Visiting Lad Sydney Canberra

Author:John Henry Carver

“True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.”

Made Numbers Influence Modern Weight Sheer Modern Life

Book:TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE

Source: TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE

“What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.”

Want Made Father Gardener Laborers

Author:Dan DeCarlo

“England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents.”

People Made Stills Running Film Talking Class Middle Garden England Silly Middle Class Surprising Load Accents

Author:Stephen Daldry

“I've never been to Hollywood. I can count the number of times I've been to Los Angeles on my hands. I've never made a movie there and I've never been there for working reasons. The only reason to go there is for silly awards shows.”

Made I Can Reason Shows Hands Numbers Hollywood Silly Los Angeles Awards Award Shows

Author:Stephen Daldry

“If I wanted to work financially, I would have made a series of different choices. I do get offered lots of movies which you could make a lot of money out of. And I always say, 'Why would I do that, when someone else could do it much better than me? Why would I want to do an action picture? Why?”

Ifs Want Made Different Action Wanted Choices Series Lots Of Money Different Choices

Author:Stephen Daldry

“It's disingenuous to say that criticism doesn't get to you or you don't hear it or that you ignore it. When everybody says, 'That's crap. I hated that,' you hear it. But it's much, much worse when they're right: when you feel that it is an absolute piece of tosh. I made the film I wanted to make, so you just have to find a way of getting over it.”

Way Feels Made Wanted Film Pieces Criticism Absolutes Hated Over It Crap Disingenuous Getting Over It

Author:Stephen Daldry

“The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies.”

People Has Beens Made Stills Reason Stories Film Given Class Successful Written Industry England Wake Up Variety Shock Working Class Film Industry Successful Work

Author:Stephen Daldry

“What made me empathic was my depressions.”

Made

Author:Alice Weaver Flaherty

“I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.”

Made Film Actors Majors Relate Filmmaker Chores

Author:Bill Forsyth

“And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they've gathered.”

May Made Might Levels Worry Information Higher Comfort Users Inference

Author:Edward Felten

“I'm proud of my triumphs. I've dreamed of being world champion, I've had some difficult times and they've made me value the good times.”

World Made Values Difficult Proud Triumph Champion Good Times Difficult Times World Champions

Author:Sete Gibernau

“I'm interested in making films of all sizes. During this time I've made a film called 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas', which is a modest-sized film. I was involved in 'I Am Legend' and 'Yes, Man', but 'Potter' is unique. There'll never be anything like 'Potter' again.”

Men Made Film Boys Involved Unique Size Legends Modest Potters Pajamas

Author:David Heyman

“Because actually it's really hard to get things made. It takes years. To fight the fights you inevitably have to fight, even when you've produced Harry Potter, you'd better have the commitment and the passion to knock down walls, not take no for an answer.”

Years Made Hard Fighting Passion Answers Wall Commitment Made It Harry Potter Potters

Author:David Heyman

“I made a lot of good friends in Philadelphia and the last thing that I would want to do is dog anyone in that clubhouse. If I made it sound like that, it was a mistake.”

Ifs Want Made Lasts Sound Mistake Dog Made It Good Friend Philadelphia

Author:Cory Lidle

“If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.”

Ifs Made Bigs Games Attitude Team Spring Training League Polish Good Attitude Spring Training

Author:Cory Lidle

“The one appearance that I made for President Kennedy, he, as I understand, had his choice or was asked to make a list of the people he would like to have perform, and I was fortunate enough to be one of them.”

People Made Enough Choices President Appearance Lists Fortunate President Kennedy

Author:Julie London

“A film must have two elements - it must deal with the real world and show how it could be made better.”

World Made Two Real Shows Film Deals Elements Real World

Author:Rouben Mamoulian

“Some of the screen's best moments were realized because a director went against all reason, all logic. No matter how incredible a story seems, it can be made credible. If you feel an insane idea strongly enough, you've usually got something.”

Ifs Feels Made Ideas Matter Reason Enough Moments Stories Seems Directors Logic Incredibles Screens Insane Credible Best Moments

Author:Rouben Mamoulian

“I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.”

Made Black Mass Commentators Unspoken

Author:Aaron McGruder

“That's why I made decisions; they were tough decisions but we shouldn't feel bad at all - don't look back with any regrets, that's how I made decisions as governor.”

Feels Looks Made Decision Regret Tough Governors Tough Decisions Unpopular Decisions

Author:Scott McCallum

“Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.”

People Made Different Principles Possibility Theory Capable Argument Observation Different Peoples Objectivity Checking Out

Author:Jose Padilha

“You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when you take the toy off the shelf at Wal-Mart and another is made in Shen Zhen the next day.”

Made Next Toys Shelves Next Day Baghdad Bombers World Is Flat Riyadh

Author:Thomas Friedman

“When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class.”

Ifs Writing Years Made Stories Deals Class Teacher Week Short Story Friday English Teacher

Author:Victor Salva

“I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.”

People Ifs Firsts Made Invention Plastic Surgery Plastic Surgery New Inventions

Author:Alanna Ubach

“I might say that when the settlement was made the Nixon administration issued what they called a second inflation alert in which the General Motors settlement was branded as being inflationary and bad for the country.”

Made Country Might Administration Inflation Motor Settlement Branded General Motors

Author:Leonard Woodcock

“Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator.”

Made Two Industry Cost Rate Factors Operations Feds Wages Components Automobile Cost Of Living Escalators Automobile Industry

Author:Leonard Woodcock

“Without constantly pushing my senior colleagues to formulate decisions, I would never be able to learn and know what they are made of.”

Knows Made Able Decision Pushing Senior Colleagues

Author:Peter Woo

“I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a better life. She was so beautiful in her love for God, her love for her family and her love for music. She truly loved her music. She could do everything! She had flawless rhythm, flawless pitch, flawless feeling, and flawless beauty.”

Made Feelings Beautiful Changed Proud Rhythm God Love Better Life Changed My Life Houston Flawless Love For Her Whitney

Author:Narada Michael Walden

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