David Puttnam Quotes
At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.
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I don't like people cleaning my room.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.
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To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
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A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.
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We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.
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Redlining went beyond FHA-backed loans and spread to the entire mortgage industry, which was already rife with racism, excluding black people from most legitimate means of obtaining a mortgage.
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It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
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Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
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Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.
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It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.
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What could a smartphone do for me that would make people go out and buy another one?
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I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.
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People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.
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I've always believed in working hard, and I'm grateful that people seem to connect with the kinds of stories I'm passionate about telling.
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I have no idea what I want to do for a career. But in terms of my advocacy work, I'm definitely going to continue.
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The church is not going to survive if they are going to tell people that they have to twist their minds into 1st century pretzels.
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The Iraqi military are able to deploy these weapons within 45 minutes of a decision to do so.
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The Department of Defense, the largest single energy consumer in America, is bullish on solar.
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I don't like to photograph children as children. I like to see them as adults, as who they really are. I'm always looking for the side of who they might become.
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At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.
