Danny Boyle Quotes
It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.
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I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
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If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.
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Only silence perfects silence.
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I want to upset people, I want to make people think, I want to keep people interested.
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The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.
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Arguably, it was the introduction of international non-proliferation treaties in the late '80s that finally led to the missiles being removed from Greenham Common.
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There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.
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He came in sight of a pass guarded by armed men. ‘you cannot pass … Do you not know that all this country belongs to the Spirit of the Age? … Here Enlightenment, take this fugitive to our Master.’
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Irish people are pragmatic. They understand that nobody is going to fix our problems but ourselves.
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I have a famous brother, and I see what his life's like. He can stay places 15 minutes, and then he's got to leave. So I've seen what it's like to be famous, and I haven't really aspired to be a huge mega-star - not that I've had that opportunity.
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It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'.
