Danny Boyle Quotes
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It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
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The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.
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Epic were adamant that I should carry on being me. They liked the way I look, my clothes, hats... nothing's changed really.
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I cried like a baby. When no one could see me or hear me. Not because I feared what cancer would do, but because I didn't want the disease. I wanted my life to be normal, which it could no longer be.
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Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.
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I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.
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Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.
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If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
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Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
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The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.
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A private jet is not a luxury; it is a necessity.
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My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised.
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The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.
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Since I was drafted by the Blackhawks, the people of Chicago have really embraced me and treated me with nothing but respect.
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The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'
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My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
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I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.
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The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind as those which concern its intercourse with the rest of the world to the sole disposal of a magistrate, created and circumstanced, as would be a President of the United States.
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I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.
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We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not.
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I didn't know much about Texas when I moved there for graduate school. In my first or second semester, I took a class in life and literature of the Southwest, and that's where I first heard about these events along the border in 1915-1918, what Anglos called the Bandit Wars.
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Don't forgive your enemies for their sake - do it for your sake.
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I am a sci-fi fan.
