David Puttnam Quotes
I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.
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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
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I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
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I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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If the FBI gets the 'back doors' it wants, Internet services would be required to create a massive online infrastructure for law enforcement to spy on members of the public.
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Is an out-of-control life challenge making you feel 'out of control' over your entire life? If so, stop lying around doing nothing. Stop sleeping late. Stop watching too much TV. Start recognizing that this lack of a disciplined schedule will only increase your feelings of being out of control of your life.
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Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up.
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If someone falls down, pick them back up. Just because there's not a frickin camera in your face doesn't mean you don't have to look out for each other.
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I live, eat and drink the Colin McNeil fight every day right now. I can think of nothing else and I agree with Colin that this will be the one to watch.
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Leo Bloom: Actors are not animals! They're human beings!Max Bialystock: They are? Have you ever eaten with one?
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Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an essential time-order; a written word is a series of pieces of matter, having an essential space-order.
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I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.
