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• He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together.

  Saffron Burrows

  Lunch, Laughing, Together

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• I know, it's weird that I've never done a musical. I turned down two of them. 'The Lion King' and 'The Producers.' I turned two of the biggest Broadway musicals down, am I a mess?

  Mario Cantone

  Kings, Two, Musical

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• He wasn't, but producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They're trying to stop you spending money and you're trying to not spend money, but at the same time we're great artists.

  Michael Apted

  Artist, Trying, Different

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• Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

  Marianne Williamson

  Self Esteem, Maturity, Waiting

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• Time and again we’ve seen that reducing poverty comes down to economic opportunity-not just connecting the poor to services like banking, but ensuring they can be producers on fair terms in the global economy.

  Leila Janah

  Opportunity, Poverty, Banking

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• The consumption of alcohol is increasing among youth. Targeting young audiences, advertisers portray beer and wine as joyful, socially desirable, and harmless. Producers are promoting new types of alcoholic beverages as competitors in the huge soft-drink market. Grocery and convenience stores and gas stations stock alcoholic beverages side by side with soda pop. Can Christians who are involved in this commerce be indifferent to the physical and moral effects of the alcohol from which they are making their profits?

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Christian, Wine, Beer

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• The thrill of hearing your own voice recorded is still there, I still love it, going into the studio and thinking how can I sing this song and between the producers and the musicians you find a way of doing it.

  Cliff Richard

  Song, Thinking, Voice

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• But we were doing plays and movies which I had nothing to do with other than being a producer, and I don't have that kind of interest or time any more.

  Gregory Harrison

  Play, Kind, Interest

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• If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Independent, Thinking, Roots

  The Book Reporter interview, www.bookreporter.com. May 3, 2002.

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• I wouldn't do the music thing if it weren't for my brother, who's a producer. He understands me and helps my vision come to life.

  Debby Ryan

  Brother, Vision, Helping

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• Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process - maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like 'Lights Please' happens like that.

  J. Cole

  Song, Writing, Good Day

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• I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me.

  J. Cole

  Heart, Long, Hip Hop

  "J. Cole On Competition And Writing Honest Songs". "Microphone Check" with Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Frannie Kelley, www.npr.org. June 23, 2013.

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• I never had any plans to become a producer when I was a kid. I wanted to be a DJ, like most other kids at the time. Then my mum bought me a Casio keyboard and I started to sample sounds that I liked.

  Timbaland

  Kids, Sound, Keyboards

  "Soundtrack of my life: Timbaland" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2007.

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• Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Intuition, Actors, Scripts

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• The producer is at the center of entertainment. The producer is being forgotten, and producers must seize the center of activity.

  Marshall Herskovitz

  Entertainment, Forgotten, Activity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

  Barry Mann

  Records, Should, Songwriters

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• Back 20 years ago, I was recording with Bruce Springsteen, and his producer called me and said I had to be in the studio the next day to finish the sessions, and I couldn't. I had to be in court, in California. All this took like 10 years out of my life.

  Ronnie Spector

  Years, California, Next Day

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• The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

  Phil Ramone

  Directors, Records, World

  "Grammy-winning producer Phil Ramone dies at 79", www.foxnews.com. March 30, 2013.

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• Are you a producer or a looter? If diversity were always and everywhere good we would be clamoring for more midgets in the NBA.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Nba, Diversity, Would Be

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• Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.

  Babyface

  Diamond In The Rough, Executives, Diamond

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• It always offended me when I was in the studio and the engineer or the assumed producer for the session would start bossing the band around. That always seemed like a horrible insult to me.

  Steve Albini

  Band, Insult, Horrible

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• For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Machinery, Creator

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.22, Lulu.com

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• I've been on so many movies. Generally, I haven't gotten to be on the ground level. As of two years ago, in 'Dear John,' I got to really be on the ground floor. I wasn't a producer. I felt like I put the work in, and I did have a lot of sway on what got fixed, reshoots, so on and so forth. It felt really good.

  Channing Tatum

  Years, Two, Levels

  "Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum 21 JUMP STREET Set Visit Interview". Interview with Brendan Bettinger, collider.com. February 15, 2012.

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• The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science itself.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Science, Chaos, Social

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• I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.

  Jack Lemmon

  Running, Quitting, Truck

  1986 In Newsweek, 5 May.

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