Bill Toomey Quotes
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Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.
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We must defend what we have achieved so far.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critics say, because I think that critics care about what fans think of them, too, so there's a little bit of a refraction there, through that glass.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
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Small ideas won't help Illinois' future.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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I really had a problem with being 'the man.' I'm past it now, but that was my insecurity. I ran from that. I was cool with being No. 3 on the call sheet or No. 2.
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I suppose I am one: an activist - for animals and a vegan lifestyle. I hear that word, however, and look around to see if someone is indeed referring to me.
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Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.
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If you're not ready the moment things happen, then you're irrelevant, you might as well not go.
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Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.
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I've signed many documents as president and CEO as required by law. I signed every single document that we were required to file - every single one of them.
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I have never planned my career here in Bollywood, so planning to do Hollywood films is a distant thing. You have to see how things come.
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By the time I was 23 or 24 and had written the first manuscript of 'The Final Winter', I knew I wanted to make it a career but didn't know how. It took me a long time to grow into myself, but when my love of writing returned, it did so with an enormous amount of venom. It is now a mainstay in my life.
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I have competed before empty stadiums a lot in my career.
