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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren't a viable career, I thought of finding another job. I started training and riding horses and got consumed by that. It was a boon in disguise.
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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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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
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You have just constructed a straw man so large you could burn it in the desert and hold an annoying festival around it.
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Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sadness. There's no need to tell the children that.
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The fundamental message of the Wu Tang music is as vast as the ocean in all reality, but it's still a straight path. You can take one lyric and by researching what that lyric is giving out to you, it should give you more than a day's worth of school, maybe three days' worth of school.
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In Puerto Rico, I played in all kinds of bands that played salsa and merengue. That's how I saved the money to come to the U.S. We used to play El Gran Combo tunes. Half the band was my friends - we were around 15 - and the other half was my friend's father and his friends from the hospital where he worked. They were all, like, 50.
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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.
