T. S. Eliot
Poet, Playwright
"Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to."
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George A. Romero
Filmmaker
"I'll never get sick of zombies. I just get sick of producers."
Muhammad Ali
Boxer, Activist
"The woman is the fiber of the nation. She is the producer of life. A nation is only as good as its women."
Alfred Marshall
Economist
"Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species."
Thomas Carlyle
Essayist, Historian, Novelist
"For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer."
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"It is too narrow an understanding of production which confines it merely to the making of things. Production includes not merely the making of things, but the bringing of them to the consumer. The merchant or storekeeper is thus as truly a producer as is the manufacturer, or farmer, and his stock or capital is as much devoted to production as is theirs."
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"Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience."
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"Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad."
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"Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story"
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"The Tathagatha... is the originator of the path unarisen before, the producer of the path unproduced before, the declarer of the path undeclared before. He is the knower of the path, the discoverer of the path, the one skilled in the path. And his disciplines now dwell following that path and become possessed of it afterwards."
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"Uruguay is one of the biggest producers of software. We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We do not believe in free trade."
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"I know I can't do everything myself. So I know I specialize in my melodies and I do some of my demo work. I pass it on to my producers who are much better at the production level"
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"We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage."
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"As a producer, you've got to be involved in helping out with solving problems."
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"I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver."
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"One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers."
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"The lady ... is not a producer; in most communities productive labor is by consent unladylike. On the other hand she is the heaviest of consumers, and theorists have not been wanting to maintain that the more she spends the better off society is."
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"Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in the history of film and television."
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"As well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist."
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"Will there be titty? Sure. Boom! I'm a producer. Where you been all our life, boy? We been lookin for you in Hollywood."
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"My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years."
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"All producers encourage you, whatever it is, to make it more-so. If you've got a joke, can it be funnier? If you've got an action sequence, can it be more exciting? That's the nature of being a producer."
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"A lot of times, in music especially, it's producers making a political decision."
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"I want to see more women as producers."
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"For me, selfishly, The Postman didn't kill my career. It meant I didn't shoot straight and painfully into the limelight, but Rushmore came out of it. No one would have known where I was to cast me in Rushmore had I not been in The Postman. Because they shared a producer. Nor would I have been in The Sixth Sense. Nor would I be speaking to you now if Kevin Costner hadn't cast me in The Postman."
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