David Benioff Quotes
We have amazing stunt performers and in Miguel Sapochnik, a director who's so good at spending hours and hours and hours on every shot beforehand, so that he knows exactly what he wants when he gets to the battlefield on the day. We only shoot ten-hour days, so you have to pack a lot into those ten hours.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.
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Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and programming and space and clutter and how to be a better piano or bass player - everything.
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.
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In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one family into another.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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The ideal would be to have a career like Meryl Streep's or Kate Winslet's. It's just unbelievable how they manage to make such incredible choices one after the other. If you could have a career anything like that, then that would be a great thing.
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I don't believe in hitting a bad shot and then insisting it's no big deal. No, you just messed up, so react. I'm not saying you need to throw your club. I mean, take 10 seconds to get angry at yourself, but then start over.
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I'll be too old to face a difficult championship as the one in America will surely be.
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When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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Jason Momoa became a really good friend of ours when he played Khal Drogo. We loved hanging out with Momoa, and suddenly we couldn't bring him to Belfast anymore.
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Conservatives don't want to read good, smart books. They mostly want to read Fox and talk radio hosts writing about presidents.
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We have amazing stunt performers and in Miguel Sapochnik, a director who's so good at spending hours and hours and hours on every shot beforehand, so that he knows exactly what he wants when he gets to the battlefield on the day. We only shoot ten-hour days, so you have to pack a lot into those ten hours.
