Danny Boyle Quotes
Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.
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Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?
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In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
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I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.
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I started out doing musicals.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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I was very dramatic - very, like, 'It's never going to happen. My life is over at 16 because I'm not already famous. I'm not going to get my record deal. I'm not going to be able to sing for a living.'
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One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.
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When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.
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As actors, the magic is in the almost spiritual experience to really enter another world, to really enter a belief of being in another person's shoes and to really take on their experiences as someone else has written them and imagined them. It's kind of a sacred thing. It's a very spiritual experience. That in itself for me is the main thing that keeps me coming back to it. I like to travel, but for me, this is the greatest travel.
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Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.
