James Mackintosh Quotes
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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I think the thing that I really wanna bring is that I have a full world of music and imagination and ideas that I want to create as an artist, and that's my main thing that I want to do.
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Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
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Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
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So many good fortunes have come my way, and I'm trying to pay it forward by helping to raise money to complete 'Bulbul: Song Of The Nightingale,' a documentary that brings attention to the social and human injustices suffered by the Banchara tribe in India.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'
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You've got to be picky in this business - if you're not, then I don't think you have the option of longevity. You've got to be choosy and try and do something that's outside of the box and dangerous. I love doing stuff that excites me, gives me that adrenalin rush.
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I like to tell people that I have the best job in the media. All I do is hang around with heroes. I do that every week for my 'War Stories' documentary series - and when FOX News wants - I go off and cover the young Americans we send to places like Afghanistan or Iraq.
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Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
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Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.
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I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
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I've teamed up with one of the headmasters at Eton College, and we're spearheading a kind of 'slow education movement in Britain'. It's based on this idea of moving away from the fast-food approach to learning and going to something deeper, more woolly, harder to measure.
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To be a film-maker, you are almost forced to be surrounded by contradictions... You must have talents of so many different kinds - talents that are contradictory.
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It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.
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My nights are a nightmare, quite often, but the nightmares are rich. I nourish myself by those nights.
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It seems disrespectful to me to see ladies in church in very short skirts or skimpy, sleeveless tops. I would imagine that it could be distracting to men who are trying to keep their minds on God.
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It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.
