James Clavell Quotes
Changi for me - of course it's easy to be wise after the event, and to discuss it cleverly after the event - was about as near as you can get to being dead and still be alive.
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.
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These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.
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People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no money, and so they are insecure. My advantage is I don't value money that much. It's an easy thing for me to let go.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
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Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.
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I love girl power.
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I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.
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Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.
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You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
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The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
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My policies are based not on some economics theory, but on things I and millions like me were brought up with: an honest day's work for an honest day's pay; live within your means; put by a nest egg for a rainy day; pay your bills on time; support the police.
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I was lucky that I was getting exposed to a lot of different kinds of films, and I was liking them all. So it seemed logical to me that you could - as in the style of the studio directors of the 30s and 40s - jump from one genre to the next, with the same satisfaction.
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I figure if I have one false start every ten or 12 years that I've been running, I probably won't false start again during my career.
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Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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Changi for me - of course it's easy to be wise after the event, and to discuss it cleverly after the event - was about as near as you can get to being dead and still be alive.
