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Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
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Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
How could I resent being labeled a has-been when I am placed in the same division as a junior miss of 15? Junior Miss is the title of the picture I am shortly to produce. Many of my friends complimented me and there were some who even said I looked like Shirley Temple's sister. Now tell me: after that would I think of suing Life? It never entered my head.
I'm not going to be a star, I'm going to be a legend.
I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.
We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.
God and the truth are on our side. We will be victorious.
Nothing has astonished me more (and I think my publishers) than the welcome given to The Lord of the Rings. But it is, of course, a constant source of consolation and pleasure to me. And, I may say, a piece of singular good fortune, much envied by some of my contemporaries. Wonderful people still buy the book, and to a man "retired" that is both grateful and comforting.
When you do one movie at a time, if one goes crazy and becomes successful, your life changes. But you can step back and catch your breath.
You have to search the absolute deamons of your soul to make a great record.
I didn't realize - you think you are doing a movie but then you realize it's a Columbia Pictures movie so it's probably going to have some publicity. Then you see a billboard and it's like, 'God! I'm on a billboard! ' It doesn't hit all at once, it kind of unravels itself and it's still unraveling.