James Hilton Quotes
Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
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There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
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Personally we look forward to an old age of dissipation and indolence and unreverend disrepute. In fifty years we shall be ninety-two years old. We intend to work rather hard during those fifty years and accumulate enough to live on without working any more for the next ten years, for we have determined to die at the age of one hundred and two.
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Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
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Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?
