James Cameron Quotes
I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
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I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.
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My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.
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I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.
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It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that saves me. I believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I still believe that, and consequently, I believed that I had a chance, even though things around me were absolutely crazy and difficult.
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.
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I don't belong to any country clubs. I don't have this big circle of friends. Where I make my friends is where I work.
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Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.
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I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.
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People do think you're more intelligent if you have dark hair. But my husband definitely prefers me as a blonde.
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The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.
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So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roarBut bind him to his native mountains more.
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You see, this war came to us, not the other way around.
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Thoughts shut up want air,And spoil, like bales unopen’d to the sun.
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The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.
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Today's energy mix is the result of yesterday's consumer habits, considerable investment, and various political decisions. The potential of renewable energies, now a well-established fact, is undeniable if given the time to arrive at the technical and economic maturity that will free them from subsidization policies.
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I've done all kinds of martial arts. I have my blackbelt in Shorei Ru. I'm doing Wu Shu. I do all kinds of different martial arts.
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I've always eaten egg whites because when I was little, I didn't like the color yellow, so my mom would trick me into eating eggs by taking out the yolk.
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Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers.
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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.
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To get enough of the teachers we need, teaching has to be a great job where talented people are supported and rewarded.
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To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.
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I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.
