Billy Boyd Quotes
I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act.
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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This is America, not a banana republic.
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The biggest ambition in my career is still to win the European Cup. I want to have a picture of that to look at later; I want to have that medal. You can have a contract that is better than your friends, but no player looks back and says: 'I won more money.'
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They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.
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If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.'
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Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
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The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve.
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Some people like very predictable melodies, and others prefer the less likely notes.
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Just as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us starve, if it refuses to sate our needs. One may therefore hope to be freed from a part of one's sufferings by influencing the instinctual impulses.
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The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make become increasingly complex. They require the longer-term thinking and greater tolerance for ambiguity that science fosters. The new economy is predicated on a continuous pipeline of scientific and technological innovation. It can not exist without workers and consumers who are mathematically and scientifically literate.
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You just have to do the thing that you feel is true to your vision, and then the audience will make the decision. But as soon as you feel like you're creating a product to just cater to what you think they want, it never works. It always feels phony. And the audience can tell immediately.
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I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act.
