David Lean Quotes
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
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I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
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My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.
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Two to three years down the road, other companies not on a model like Dell's will be in trouble.
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I think there were times when I first started out, when I was covering Iraq - I was basically living there in 2003 and 2004 - that car bombs and attacks became so the norm that it was weird for me to leave and realize that no one else actually cared about what was going on there.
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Le coeur a ses raisons, Mrs. Bence, que la raison ne connait pas.
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I was somewhat of a mute at school, so people were quite scared!
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I think people remember pictures not dialogue. That's why I like pictures.
