Drummond Money-Coutts Quotes
From a young age I was obsessed with the mysterious, the esoteric, the paranormal.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.
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In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even younger watched that show. A generation grew up on that show, Luke and Laura, I came in on the cusp of that so there's still a lot of 'Frisco.'
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
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The book that first made me want to be a writer is Flannery O'Connor's short story collection 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find.'
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You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It's impossible.
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Surviving is the only glory in war.
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The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart.
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Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
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'Shocking' is like a bolt from the blue. It is something external that ruptures your world.
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I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.
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I listen to a lot of choral stuff at home, but I'm also liking Labrinth, Emeli Sande, Tom Odell and Wretch 32.
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I grew up watching the films of 'Carousel' and 'Oklahoma' and 'The Music Man' and 'My Fair Lady' - all the classic musicals of that golden era, The sort of more modern musical theater, or what was modern when I was at a ripe teenage age, I wasn't really listening to that stuff. I was really more raised on the classics.
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I'm definitely interested in taking on roles where I don't look like myself. But I'm not saying I'm going to go out of my way to play a disabled person in order to win an Oscar.
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I had a respected SF writer call me 'girlie' and demand that I get him a coffee, before the panel we were on together.
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I'm drunk but truthful.
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Macrame is effortless.
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From a young age I was obsessed with the mysterious, the esoteric, the paranormal.
