Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Stevens

To produce and direct a movie today, a man really ought to have two heads. It is like trying to be a traffic cop and write a poem at the same time. You need an executive head to handle all the vast paraphernalia of movie-making. You need another, more sensitive head to get the delicate human emotional values you are trying to put on film.

We need copyright protection but we must not stifle technology to get it.

Legal or illegal, Napster doesn't feel right, ... It doesn't give the copyright holders their share.

Orlando Bloom

Sofia Coppola is wonderful, and I'd love to work with her.

Jeffrey Skilling

So I told Vince he didn't have to worry, we have plenty of cops in (the group).

Al Lewis

She understood what the struggle was about. You become aware. It hits you in the stomach and then a cop hits you on the head.

She's going to have to deliver the standard copy lines effectively. It sounds easier to do, but when it's 6:30 p.m. at night they expect you to be flawless.

The picture they paint ? much higher sea levels with mind-boggling implications for entire communities, populations, and economies ? is sobering. It's hard to imagine how governments and individuals will cope with sea level rising at rates of up to a meter per century.

The picture for supply and demand means that copper prices will remain high.

Bill Hader

I would do 'Superbad,' and the next offers you would get would all be crazy cop characters or crazy security guards or something.

Cindy Sherman

I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face. I think I'm really observant, and thinking how a person is put together, seeing them on the street and noticing subtle things about them that make them who they are.

Brad Garrett

We don't take care of our teachers and our cops and our firemen. They should be at the top of our list.

When I first started as an editorial cartoonist, I was terrified on a daily basis. Filling that hole the next day, knowing that tens of thousands of people were going to expect something funny. There is still that pressure, but you kind of learn how to cope with it a little better.

Lee Kuan Yew

I've got one grandson gone to MIT. Another grandson had been in the American school here. Because he was dyslexic, and we then didn't have the teachers to teach him how to overcome or cope with his dyslexia, so he was given exemption to go to the American school. He speaks like an American. He's going to Wharton.

We sent out about 200 copies of the first record and within a month, everyone seemed to be playing it.

Simone Signoret

Hordes of young girls never copied my hairdos or the way I talk or the way I dress. I have, therefore, never had to go through the stress of perpetuating an image that's often the equivalent of one particular song that forever freezes a precise moment of one's youth.

Twiggy

From as far back as I can remember, I was always insecure about my looks, whether it was my flat chest, my skinny legs, or how to cope with my body as it changed. With hindsight, I can see I was different. I was given a body that worked for photographic modelling and a photogenic face.

Artie Lange

I never went through a period were I wanted to be a doctor, a cop or even a rock star. All I wanted to do was play short stop for the Yankees from the time I was about 5. Then I turned 15 and realized how silly that was and just gave up on it.

Tom Riley

I can jump on to a kitchen worktop from standing, like Tigger. It was something my dad could do, and I copied it from him.

Jeff Fisher

When you are deactivating healthy players it's tough, ... But I will cope with this considering last year deactivations were not difficult because guys couldn't play.

Nancy McKeon

I'd never played a cop before, and this particular role with what she is going thru, especially during the first season, covering her alcoholism to her on the job performance, was a great opportunity for me as an actress.

Cristela Alonzo

My mom ending up passing away, and I got really depressed and didn't have money for therapy, and so I started doing standup to cope with my mom's death.

Dallas Roberts

I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'

We are looking for an alternative to platinum, a nickel-cobalt-copper alloy. We want some of its properties, but at a lower cost, and nickel, cobalt and copper alloys are a possible solution.

Hiam Abbass

I love to take risks and see how I cope with the situation.

Helmut Newton

I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I think it's very valid. But when established photographers, people in their forties, copy me and get a lot of money, well, I find that to be very stupid.

Elizabeth Warren

Cops on the beat can stop problems before the damage spreads.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

What happens is that the people who are leaders in any field are copied. I mean, there's a reason why every wine newsletter tends to look like mine. They see someone who's been successful, so they sort of copy these same ideas.

Sarah MacLean

By the time I was 10 or 12, I had discovered the lure of the romance genre - and the dusty copy of 'The Thorn Birds' on my parents' bookshelf.

The defendant admits to spending about one month to perfect the copying process of the bills.

Susan Wojcicki

We prefer to work with the publisher for in-copyright material, ... would never show a full page without the right from a copyright holder.

Billy Corgan

Hey, Christian rock, if you want to be good, stop copying U2. U2 already did it. You know what I mean? There's a lot of U2-esque Christian rock.

Anatole France

When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it