Danny Boyle Quotes
I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.
Quotes to Explore
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I love cooking and baking.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their West Coast headquarters is in the Bob Barker building.
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The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
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It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.
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Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.
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Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.
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A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.
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With any long-term relationship, you have good days and bad days.
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Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns.
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The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
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If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote. It is important for oligarchs to have elections to give their guy a veneer of legitimacy - and important for the vote always to turn out 'their way.'
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In the end it all comes down to talent. You can talk all you want about intangibles, I just don't know what that means. Talent makes winners, not intangibles. Can nice guys win? Sure, nice guys can win - if they're nice guys with a lot of talent. Nice guys with a little talent finish fourth, and nice guys with no talent finish last.
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I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.
