Gary Speed Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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I want to find a way to speak to the broadest audience possible.
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We have to be aware that fossil fuel energy sources have an expiry date. A timeframe of 30, 40 or 50 years can seem a long time to get rewards for economic policy, but it's only a short time for implementing a new energy policy.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
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From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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I always think Michelle Williams is excellent in her work. And I do love Sofia Coppola. She always creates something so atmospheric. I love Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Andrea Arnold.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
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My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.
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We need intelligence in this country. We need a certain toughness in this country, or we're going to end up like a lot of the other places, and we're not going to have a country left.
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There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
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The affinity of blood or pure haemoglobins for oxygen is a complex phenomenon, depending upon a number of conditions, the most important of which are temperature and hydrogen ion concentration.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.
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What's important is Welsh football and that it progresses.
