Darren Star Quotes
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.
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I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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When you have children love is always there in the best form.
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The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'
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The advancement of technology has probably guided us more than anything else in one direction or another. I don't know, it's hard to say. We're so much more connected, but we've never been more fractured as a culture.
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Capital is a coward. It flees from corruption and bad policies, conflict and unpredictability. It shuns ignorance, disease and illiteracy. Capital goes where it is welcomed and where investors can be confident of a return on the resources they have put at risk. It goes to countries where women can work, children can read, and entrepreneurs can dream.
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Writing the past is never a neutral act. Writing always asks the past to justify itself, to give its reasons... provided we can live with the reasons. What we want is a narrative, not a log; a tale, not a trial. This is why most people write memoirs using the conventions not of history, but of fiction.
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My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.
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I'm used to pressure. When writing must get done, I work in bed, on a bus, a train.
