Danny Boyle Quotes
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I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.
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I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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Modeling is really silent acting.
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I love having candles, especially when you get downtime. I could just pass out seeing the flame flicker with the lights off.
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The human race has been telling stories since it began.
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Saddam Hussein was a bad guy. Right? He was a bad guy, really bad guy. But you know what he did well? He killed terrorists. He did that so good. They didn't read them the rights - they didn't talk, they were a terrorist, it was over. Today, Iraq is Harvard for terrorism. You want to be a terrorist, you go to Iraq. It's like Harvard. Okay?
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Our worst instincts as human beings have to do with our carelessness with natural resources, and when the body itself becomes just one more of those resources, how will we treat it? Will we treat it with such indifference and with such depersonalization that it becomes more like a very fancy car than a repository of the self?
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Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.
