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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We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
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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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Only a fool has no regrets and I'm not a fool.
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Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.
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When I was little, I think that I wanted Superman to be my boyfriend.
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I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.
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I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they're clever and educated. I try not to suffer from that. I would rather sacrifice my own narrative in the exercise of writing a biography. So I'm not worried about whether I'm clever.
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So long as you've got one good eye, the other one is just back-up.
