Martin Campbell Quotes
I tried to get a job as a TV cameraman and they basically told me, 'You're mad, everyone wants these jobs - and if you go to England, you're doubly mad.' But I worked in abattoirs for 10 months to earn my money, then left for London. I didn't even know what a director did.
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My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called 'My Generation'. Critics liked it. I was on for two weeks, and that was a tough one.
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I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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I get bored easily.
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That's one of the things that I've loved about 'Spider-Man' and Marvel in general. The characters all have dimension.
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Values are more important than money.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
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It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
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There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.
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Everything I say is true.
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By the time I got to set for 'Cobra,' I think I'd lost about 28 pounds in about a month and a half. I didn't want to look back and be like, 'Wow, someone should stop eating PB and J's.' Like, if I'm going to look back when I'm 80, I wanted to be like, 'Wow, okay, I looked pretty fit. I used my youth right.'
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
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Prior to 2015, I had kind of approached every year like, 'Let's hope for the best.' I always made these year-end videos with 100 things I did, and it would kind of build itself up throughout the year. When this year started, it was like I knew the 100 things before I even got to do them.
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Harlem is a stage. It's like its own planet, from the way we dress to the swag in the way we walk and talk.
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I think whatever you love the most is where you should spend your money.
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This is going to sound horrible, but I don't even know how much I make in a year. It must be, you know, a couple of million dollars, a few million. I know it's more money than my dad, a jail guard, made in his lifetime; more money than I'll ever need.
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I love writing comedy.
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I tried to get a job as a TV cameraman and they basically told me, 'You're mad, everyone wants these jobs - and if you go to England, you're doubly mad.' But I worked in abattoirs for 10 months to earn my money, then left for London. I didn't even know what a director did.
