Ian Wright Quotes
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'
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I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
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I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.
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Love can never be fully explained.
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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.
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I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.
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The criteria, the only rule you should follow - the only rule - is to never touch a product or service unless, every time it is sold, part of the profit has to come back to you.
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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If you don't use good ingredients, the outcome is never going to be excellent. But if you buy the freshest ingredients that are in season, at their peak, and you cook with them, you can't really go wrong.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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I could never take orders from anyone.
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I've never liked rehearsing too much.
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If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
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You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
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Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
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Until the L.A. market is settled, I don't think there's any other market out there that stands a chance.
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Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
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Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities.
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I never travel without my sketch book.
