Robert Evans Quotes

• There are three sides to every story: my side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently.

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  Memories, Lying, Your Side

  "Film Review: 'Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon'". July 17, 2014.

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• Turning a negative into a positive is an expressway to success.

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  Negative

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• Any man who thinks he knows the mind of a woman is a man who knows nothing.

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  Men, Thinking, Mind

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• I believe rules are meant to be broken.

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  Believe, Broken, I Believe

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• Neither instinct nor style ..can be bought or taught.

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  Style, Taught, Instinct

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• The impossible becomes possible when your back is against the wall

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  Wall, Impossible Becomes Possible, Impossible

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• The only way you can make a deal is if you're ready to blow it.

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  Teamwork, Blow, Way

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• Once a mistake .... Twice ... A failure .

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  Mistake

  Robert Evans (2006). “The Kid Stays in the Picture”, p.102, Phoenix Books, Inc.

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• I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you don't have to remember what you said. It has nothing to do with morality, just remembering what you said.

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  Age, World, Morality

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• Let the wealth of remembrances past be the link of friendship treasured.

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  Past, Remembrance, Links

  Robert Evans (2006). “The Kid Stays in the Picture”, p.437, Phoenix Books, Inc.

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• Memories shared serve each one differently.

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  Memories, Three Sides

  "A Very Bad Year" by Taylor Marsh, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 31, 2006.

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• I can pick up a screenplay and flip through the pages. If all I see is dialog, dialog, dialog, I won't even read it. I don't care how good the dialog is - it's a moving picture. It has to move all the time... It's not the stage. A movie audience doesn't have the patience to sit and learn a lesson. Their eyes need to be dazzled. The writer is the most important element in the entire film because if it ain't on the page it ain't going to be on the screen.

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  Moving, Eye, Important

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• Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.

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  Attention, Enlightening, Building

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• I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.

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  Change, School, Ivy

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• Antidepressants are the biggest fraud in the world. Number one, Prozac gives you a royal soft-on like you wouldn't believe, and number two you never know all the side effects. I look at the pharmaceutical companies as the drug barons, the psychopharmcologists as the mules and the patients as the victims. They're innocent because they think they're being cured.

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  Believe, Thinking, Two

  "Robert Evans: 'Any man who says he can read a woman's thoughts is a man who knows nothing'". Interview With Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2002.

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• It has been said that a friend is somebody with whom it is possible to be silent.

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  Silent, Said, Has Beens

  Robert Evans (2006). “The Kid Stays in the Picture”, p.282, Phoenix Books, Inc.

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• When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

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  Attitude, Parenting, Anxiety

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• I get a lot from all young people. I make movies for young people. If I made pictures for people my age, no one would see them. I hang with young people all the time.

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  People, Age, Made

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• Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

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  Depressing, Creativity, Principles

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• Theres nothing more difficult to do than comedy.

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  Comedy, Difficult

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• I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing.

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  Real, Want, Hamilton

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• Mother Dolores Hart's prose is a reflection of the inner beauty she has always possessed. A fascinating read... and read again!

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  Mother, Reflection, Inner Beauty

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• It's not an easy task building a motorcycle company. Your window for success is relatively small. You can't afford a lot of hiccups if you don't have another business supporting you.

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  Motorcycle, Tasks, Bikers

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