Martin Campbell Quotes
The 3D thing has been abused slightly, I think. There is no question about that. 'Avatar' did it magnificently, and then, of course, there was the old 'leaping on the bandwagon' thing where there have been one or two films which, let's face it, all know look bloody awful with the 3D.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
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At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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I have a very short attention span.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.
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That's the biggest shame there is, that L.A. doesn't have a team. I was a big fan of the L.A. Rams, and when they left, I lost interest. Then there was the Raiders, and they left. How they can't have a football team in the biggest market in the world is beyond me.
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I think there's a lot of benefit in letting people vent. When I was on the Manchester Evening News, we got 500 letters a day, and part of my job as editor was to edit them. And I thought that was one of the best things in the newspaper, and it was instituted by an editor known as Big Tom, who said 'this is the voice of the people.' And he was quite right.
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Coaching 'The Ultimate Fighter' in my weight class, I couldn't do it. I'd basically be coaching people to beat me. I'm going to give you my riddle?
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I have nothing against alсoнol, there is nothing I can do to tell people not to do it. I don't tell people not to, I just tell people to be wise about it. If you want to do it go ahead, if you don't go ahead. Nothing makes you cooler, nothing makes you lamer. You're just a normal person if you don't want to do it.
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My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.
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The 3D thing has been abused slightly, I think. There is no question about that. 'Avatar' did it magnificently, and then, of course, there was the old 'leaping on the bandwagon' thing where there have been one or two films which, let's face it, all know look bloody awful with the 3D.
