I make it a point to pick films that tell you a story in an engaging way. I can't compromise on the content. The script has to be substantial and impactful.
Individuals achieve optimal stupidity when they're given substantial powers while being insulated from the results of their actions.
If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot.
George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
I'd aspired to give people a profound education - to teach them something substantial. But the data was at odds with this idea.
There are still substantial areas of disagreement, .. you simply have to look at the public statements to see there is a significant gap.
People who prepare false or fraudulent tax returns risk criminal prosecution and, upon conviction, substantial time in jail.
There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.
Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use.
Only after realising that routine immunisations were dangerous did I achieve a substantial drop in infant death rates.
As accidental as my life may be, or as that random humor is, which governs it, I know nothing, after all, so real or substantial as myself
Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.
When a company is fairly certain of a profit margin that is substantial, it can assume responsibility for the clinical trials to develop a blockbuster drug.
The payoff of a customer-centric approach to software and digital product design is substantial and long-lasting for both companies and their customers.
Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms.
For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.
I think as a filmmaker you try not to have any expectations other than that the film have a fairly substantial beginning, middle and end.
Once you sign a contract that states that you're going to have to fight this other man for a substantial amount of money, things change psychologically.
5 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.
Even after spending a substantial time in the entertainment business, before the release of a film, I am nervous.
We have already seen evidence that, notwithstanding the addition of substantial resources, we are experiencing great stress in recruiting and not inconsequential retention problems.
Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.
There will be losing years; but if the art of making money is not to lose it, then there should not be substantial losses.
I took my time to learn the craft and procedure. I wanted to do some substantial work first in cinema.
I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American actors to do that.
The passage of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 was a substantial victory for community colleges.
There is no such thing as an achieved liberty: like electricity, there can be no substantial storage and it must be generated as it is enjoyed, or the lights go out.
It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.
Post 'Chennai Express,' I got several offers from Hindi cinema, but nothing substantial came my way.
A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act, and without pangs of conscience, so long as they perceive that the command comes from a legitimate authority.
Bobby Charlton's record was quite substantial. I couldn't think anybody would beat that. It is an achievement par excellence.
National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.
It's the hardest thing in the world to dedicate to writing, but if you do that even once a week, after six months or a year you'll have something substantial.
Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.
The expectation is that party leaders solve problems. That's why substantial differences must first be cleared up.
We have collectively to face up to the fact that in the two main political parties there are substantial disagreements on the best form Brexit should take.
Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge.
Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.
As Huawei and ZTE aggressively work to expand their footprint in Europe and around the world, substantial national security concerns are emerging.
I have always been known for my glamour but I wanted to do something strong and substantial on TV, which is a woman dominated medium.
Rehabbing any significant injury is a substantial challenge independently; braving the process twice makes for even longer odds.
There's a substantial portion of my recorded repertoire that was learned for the recording sessions, and then basically forgotten. I wouldn't say it's the majority, but it's a fairly good chunk of it.
The question is whether or not our insecurities are substantial enough to hurt, limit, or even distract us from profound effectiveness or fulfillment of purpose.
A substantial extension of public ownership is an essential pre-requisite of greater equality of earned income
And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.
The lack of substantial resources and staffing along the Northern U.S. border poses a real security threat.
I am just not a great fan of the Piers Morgan format. I would rather do something a bit more substantial.
If something substantial comes my way - a very meaty and major role - which I would love to do, then of course one can make time for that.
I think it's possible to bag substantial roles in meaningful cinema despite being a mother. My role in Yagavarayinum ' is the best example.
I would love to do a substantial role but it has to suit me, my personality. Only then will I take it up.
As I get older I find that the friendships that are the most certain, ultimately, are the ones where you and the other person have made substantial amounts of money for one another.
No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once.
It seems from my unique vantage point as both scientist and editor of JSE that substantial evidence exists of "something going on".
I've added up all the hours of zzz's I've missed in my lifetime, and it turns out I'm running on a rather substantial deficit.
We have a substantial number of countries that have pledged and provided all kinds of support for the United States in the event that war becomes necessary in Iraq.
I would love to be able to turn my recording career into something that is substantial, and where I can go and tour with an orchestra.
Whether I'm in a sari or a mini skirt hardly matters as long as the role I do in a film is substantial and makes a difference.
If people don't think about their finances and get involved with building a financial trajectory early in life, it's kind of a substantial problem.
I was approaching the age of 40 with a substantial publication record, but had not yet held any position in a chemistry department.
The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people.
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