Drummond Money-Coutts Quotes
Magic, historically, has been a man doing tricks with no wider story behind it.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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It may come as a surprise, but Frou Frou was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous - just one of those wonderful things that happens.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
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If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
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I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.
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When I see something that's wrong, I just speak and act first and I'll take the consequences later.
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In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.
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I love improvisation. It's quite exciting.
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As a designer, when someone wears my clothes, the biggest compliment I can receive is that the woman looks amazing because my designs have flattered her, not taken over her. I take that philosophy to heart myself each morning when I am getting ready for the day.
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This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.
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The thing about abs is if you hit them daily, you feel more put-together.
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Some people are selfish in all of their relationships. Those people are called sociopaths.
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The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.
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There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
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'She gives him candy. They're probably going to get married.'
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For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.
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I'm a really big fan of all things macabre in general; Halloween happens to be my favorite holiday.
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My goal is to play better than my seed. If I'm seeded sixth, I want to try to go to the semifinals. If I'm seeded third, I'm going to shoot for the finals.
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Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages.
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The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still a part of the air we breathe in nearly every discussion.
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Magic, historically, has been a man doing tricks with no wider story behind it.
