Danny Boyle Quotes

You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'

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• I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

  

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• Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.

  

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• I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.

  

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• I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.

  

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• It was never about winning medals or being famous.

  

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• It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

  

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• China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.

  

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• I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

  

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• As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.

  

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• In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.

  

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• Saving a life overrides territories.

  

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• When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.

  

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• Bullies always have another target.

  

  Karen Handel
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• You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.

  

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• When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.

  

  Hannah Kent
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• Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

  

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• I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

  

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• It's just this little comedy about this group of guys, and their local hangout is a pool hall, and it's starting to get taken over by this big corporate, evil kind of guy. And it's just about them trying to save the day and their little pool hall in the process of it all. It's called 'Think Tank.'

  

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• As I travel the country for away games, I meet kids fighting cancer in almost every city. They visit the ballpark, and I invite them onto the field so we can chat and then watch the game.

  

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• For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was bad. I was told I could explore any thought as long as I wasn't hurting someone else.

  

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• The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917.

  

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• I think that there's a proliferation of music that is done entirely in the bedroom for an Internet audience, but there's no way in hell that you could actually kill off a live show, and its importance in the creation of music - it's just impossible.

  

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• A lot of people believe women can't do tech-y stuff. Becoming nerdy doesn't have to mean the short-haired guy, but can be the woman with very long, beautiful hair.

  

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• You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'

  

  Danny Boyle
  • Great
  • Music
  • Bored