David Attenborough Quotes
I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.
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I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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People work hard.
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I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.
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There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.
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I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.
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I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
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I don't have any regrets at all.
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Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.
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I am sure it will be mentioned and debated but from my standpoint I know who is in the Hall of Fame. A lot of them don't belong in the Hall of Fame. If someone wants to debate me, check the stats.
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Make as much money as you can. It really does help. I don't know why it's terrible to say, but it's true.
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The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
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I applied to drama school when I was about 18 and didn't have any luck anywhere. They basically turned me away and said I had a bit of growing up to do. I went back to Aberystwyth and did my growing up by spending eight months working in Peacocks.
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Being a dad changes everything for the better and I’m really enjoying it.
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You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.
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The Pulitzer isn't a physical object. You can't hold it in your hand. You get some money ($7,500 in my day), and you get a little Tiffany's paperweight with your name on it and the image of Joseph Pulitzer suspended in the crystal. When people see my 'Pulitzer' (I keep it in my sock drawer), they are pretty amazed at its meagerness.
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It really gets into your system. All baseball players have this internal clock around February when it starts to kick in and the juices start to flow. I think underestimated how much I was going to miss it.
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My agenda is trying to help people live a better life.
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I met some fans who said, 'Please start Twittering!' They even walked me through it, but I'm terrible at it. I'm so bad at keeping it up. I forget how to use it. And I'm not very savvy: I try to send a private message, and it goes out to everybody.
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I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.
