Bernard Hill Quotes
I had a really good time working with Jim Cameron. A lot of people didn't, but I did as I got on with him really quite well. For a director who spends most of his time looking down a lens or in the digitisation studio or working out some graphics, he is actually very good with actors.
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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I love working the legislative process.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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I would love to do some theater.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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Actors don't have real value.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
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The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.
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'Jurassic Park' was able to get away with big, dynamic filmmaking that might be out of place in another kind of story.
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I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.
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So I was drinking tequila, and I was drinking grappa, which is Italian for gasoline, and I was drinking Jägermeister, which I believe is the liquid equivalent of Wonder Woman's golden lasso, because it will make you tell anybody the truth for no reason whatsoever. 'You have really bad skin. Thanks for the drink.'
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It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.
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I had a really good time working with Jim Cameron. A lot of people didn't, but I did as I got on with him really quite well. For a director who spends most of his time looking down a lens or in the digitisation studio or working out some graphics, he is actually very good with actors.
