- Improvisation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Made Quotes
The choices, work, and history behind what exists.
This made quotes page covers the layered production behind a movie, how a single Gold Rush-era boom turned a small settlement into a real city, and the idea that a life is simply the sum of choices made along the way. One musician recalls making songs deliberately out of step with expectations. See First for more on beginnings.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, a few of the films I made were so bad they didn't get released - they escaped.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
My walk is consistently made fun of.
- Hardest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hardest one, the thing that made the greatest demand on me, was The Mamas & the Papas.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Robotics has already made significant inroads in electronics assembly, with sewing trades - traditionally many countries' first entry point to the global trading system - likely to come next.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.
- Choices
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be honest, I make very controversial films. The films that I've made have been very, very bold choices.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd always admired the intellectuals who had made the transition into politics - Mario Vargas Llosa in Peru, Vaclav Havel in the Czech Republic, Carlos Fuentes in Mexico - but I knew that many of them had failed, and in any event, I wasn't exactly in their league.
- Nov 07, 2020
The use of these techniques against these terrorists made us safer. It really did work.
- Distressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made my money turning around distressed or bankrupt companies. I did 50-some of them in my career... I started on a shoestring and eventually built up quite a fortune.
- Landscape
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- Nov 07, 2020
A boundary is really something artificial we made up. The ecosystem and landscape continue.
- Nov 07, 2020