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Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

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• But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Game
  • Football
  • Youth

• What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Past
  • Attitude
  • General

• Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Time
  • Music
  • Born

• Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Good
  • Travel
  • Son

• The hardest thing to do and most miserable films are comedies.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Most
  • Miserable
  • Hardest

• It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • You
  • Play

• But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Movies
  • Old
  • Hollywood

• 'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Story
  • Two
  • Sides

• It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.

  

  Adam Grant
  • True
  • Moment
  • Leader

• I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Never
  • Advice

• We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Language
  • Service
  • Tests

• When one guy undermines the other, it only causes trouble, and the team isn't successful. It's very important for both of us to accept our role and help the team. One guy can get hot, and if that's Alex, I'll support him and help any way I can.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Important
  • Help
  • Guy

• The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • You
  • Care
  • Safe

• I would say I'm self-taught, but Corinne Day made me less conscious of myself. I was 15, and she'd make me take off my top, and I'd cry. After five years, you get used to it, and you're not self-conscious anymore.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Day
  • Cry
  • Conscious

• I think the voice is an underrated instrument these days and it's easy to make up for lack of ability with effects. I think sometimes people are more wowed with effects than core craftsmanship. Strong voices are not as common as they used to be.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • People
  • Up
  • Strong

• I think we spent 60-something million on 'Hateful Eight,' which is actually more than I wanted to spend, but we had weather problems. And I wanted to make it good.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Good
  • Problems
  • Weather

• 'Upstairs Downstairs' somehow bestrode the different genres that had come before it to create a new drama entity. I suppose that's one of the reasons why it became so instantly popular.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Different
  • Why
  • Drama

• I don't feel a day older when it comes to my approach to music or what gets me off than when I was a teenager. I've always been into different kinds of stuff and when I play I like to play loud. I like my arm hairs to move and I like my body to vibrate 'cause I like the feel of it; I'm still a teenager at heart.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Different
  • Heart

• As an author, you think you know where the good parts and the bad parts are. And then you read to a group of children, and you learn when you're boring them, and you hurry through those sections to get to the parts where they're interested again. You start to get a sense of your story's rhythm and flow.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Good
  • Children
  • Bad

• Our first fiscal year, we were profitable.

  

  Kerby Jean-Raymond

• Years and years ago, I was obsessed with these Pamela Love necklaces, and they had a claw, like an eagle claw, which was silver. Then I found one on this random website. I thought it was a fake claw, and when it arrived, it was a real one, cut off from the animal! It came to my house, and it was disgusting; it was a chicken claw or something.

  

  Chiara Ferragni
  • Real
  • House
  • Animal

• The very first song I wrote was about a boy that I was obsessed with.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Song
  • Boy
  • Firsts

• Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Animal