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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For forty years or so this was the world headquarters of conspicuous consumption.
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So what we can answer as geneticists is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically we have to contextualize it - the archaeology, the linguistic pattern, even the climatology.
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On the mountains there is freedom!The world is perfect everywhere,Save where man comes with his torment.
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I would warn against anyone marrying a person with more than a ten-year age difference. It almost never works. It is difficult to find things to talk about, to use similar reference points, and to operate at the same speed of life. Another problem is that both sides usually don't want the same things at the same time.
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I like to think that we’re not defined by what happens to us…because so many times they’re beyond our control. I like to think that we’re defined by our choices and our decisions.
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I am a sci-fi fan.
