Philip Glenister Quotes
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Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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I love Ben Affleck so much. He's an amazing director.
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A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
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I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
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I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
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The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
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I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.
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Occasionally, human beings are briefly de-animated, and the stories of people who are briefly de-animated that interest me the most are those having to do with the cold.
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To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.
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Acting is just a job at the end of the day, and it's a very strange one.
