David Yates Quotes
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We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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What a publication can do is to help people get a clearer picture without jumping to any rash conclusion. I'm very happy that the 'Post' can take the responsibility to report on China in a broader and deeper way. I believe the 'Post' must be fair to our readers. We should let our readers see China from more angles and perspectives.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
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One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're having a hard time.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.
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The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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I love Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey.
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I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.
Nastassja Kinski -
With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for?
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Sundance is incredible and has been very important for my career as a filmmaker, but it's also not the only route to success. There are a ton of great movies that don't get in and go on and do wonderfully.
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I began teaching my son how to shoot when he was two, starting with the basics of a BB rifle. My theory is that kids get into trouble because of curiosity—if you don’t satisfy it, you’re asking for big problems. If you inform them and carefully instruct them on safety when they’re young, you avoid a lot of the trouble. My son has learned to respect weapons. I’ve always told him, if you want to use a gun, come get me. There’s nothing I like better than shooting.
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I guess, on my list, going back to some old American stuff and British stuff that I used to love in the '80s, would be a British show called Dad's Army, which recently just turned into a movie.
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I believe that the most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeed.
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I have always directed my attempts at the figurative representation of objects by way of summary and not very descriptive brushstrokes, diverging greatly from the real objective measurements of things, and this has led many people to talk about childish drawing.. ..this position of seeing them (the objects, fh) without looking at them too much, without focussing more attention on them than any ordinary man would in normal everyday life.
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I like humor.
