Ted Turner Quotes
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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I think it's good to conquer the fears.
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I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
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I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.
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This makes living in big cities invaluable because you increase the odds of serendipitous encounters - you gain exposure to the envelope of serendipity.
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Some secrets are meant to be taken to the grave, and that's what I plan on doing with all mine. They're not necessarily my secrets to tell. I'm the gatekeeper of other people's secrets.
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Nothing beats weaving through the rush-hour traffic or whizzing past the eternal gridlock that is the Strand.
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How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.