Neil Jordan (Neil Patrick Jordan) Quotes
Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
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The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.
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I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you,' really kind of cool you know.
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The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
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I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal.
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Today there are more things you can wear for the same occasions. I still like this idea of the perfect suit, and I always love tailoring, but today you can have more things for this type of situation, clothes that have class and that are mixable, and that are super well cut.
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America's got amazing presentation, especially New York - the most potent, strongest, concentrated, amazing presentation.
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I like the classic look. Keep it simple. There's only so much you can wear.
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Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.
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When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.
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Look at Sam Beckett. Most depressed man who ever lived, but he sure was funny.
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Before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible.
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I have made a promise to myself that I will have no limitations as an actor. I have realised I have to pay attention to the commercials or the business aspect of cinema, but deep inside, I am purely an artiste.
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All the historical pretenders to global power originated in Eurasia.
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Think of your existing power as the exponent in an equation that determines the value of information. The more power you have, the more additional power you derive from the new data.
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My favorite genre is definitely romantic comedy. I love 'When Harry Met Sally.'
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In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I read more poetry than prose, but now it is in prose where you find things being put together well, where there is great ambition, and equal talent. Poets have gotten so careless, it is a disgrace. You can’t pick up a page. All the words slide off.
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The bad stuff is easier to believe. You ever notice that?
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Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.
