Douglas Slocombe Quotes
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.
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A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
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The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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Writing was something I always liked, but it wasn't a career until I was laid off from my executive position in my 30s. I started a website because I was bored, unemployed and angry.
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They called me 'Doc.' You know... it's probably one of the best titles I've ever had.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am.
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'Touch'
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So long as you've got one good eye, the other one is just back-up.
