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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Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace.
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It's hard in America as a writer of color, an actor of color, not to get caught up in race and culture. But you're also supposed to be able to write characters and scenes in a way where it's just a matter of fact, a component.
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Wake up early everyday so that while others are still dreaming, you can make your dreams come true.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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This programme would only really make sense and work properly if it was also broadcast on France's international television channel TV5. So I ended up with a double production, on France 2 and TV5.
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So long as you've got one good eye, the other one is just back-up.
