Charlie Sykes Quotes
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: 'Oh my God...' You know if it's not great because you start to feel sick.
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Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.
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My whole career has been from scratch, so I never took it for granted that people care and support what I do.
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Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere.
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Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
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The first thing is to hang on to everybody who is talented, who is entrepreneurial, who wants to make an impact and a change and start attracting ones.
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Men who are not loyal to their wives are foolish.
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After a major loss of dynamism in the 1960s, productivity growth rates began dropping in most countries, falling by half in the U.S. in the 1970s and more or less ceasing altogether in France, Germany and Britain in the late 1990s.
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I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on 'Mad Men,' it might be recurring and they're seeing people tomorrow. I said, 'OK, this is one of those things where you hedge your bets, use your miles and get on a plane.' I flew out Tuesday morning and got the job on a Wednesday.
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OATS - A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
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There is a saying that we provide the machines with an end, and they provide us with the means.
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Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
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That's right; I was watching 'From Russia With Love', one of my favourite Bond movies, and suddenly thought that I'd love to see a version of this from Tatiana Romanova's point of view. Or, better yet; what if she was the hero? What if this was her story, and Bond was just a side character?
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I love Prada shoes. I cannot get enough of them. Or Valentino.
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You actually can make it, no matter what. I truly am a firm believer in that. Eminem's living proof.
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No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world.
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My only goal is to impress my fans.
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I have a confession to make. When I was a child, I was a chronic, repeat doodler.
