Brian Mulroney Quotes
And, of course, the fact that Maurice Strong, a Canadian, was in charge made it important for us to pull up our socks and become leaders in this field. Now, here is a field we should be a leader in!
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It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.
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The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
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How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
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If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.
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When I have a bad day, I dream about opening up a gelato stand on the streets of Sydney, Australia. Doesn't everyone have a random escape fantasy?
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Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.
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In the jungle, every day is like the other. So you need to have a special discipline to make things different and to keep in your memory the dates and the days. And I think that's something that's very important when you are held hostage.
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It's important to have good tunes, but words are the thing for me.
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Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.
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I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up.
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The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!
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My only real advice to Oscar nominees is, 'If you haven't actually seen a competitor's film, don't fib and say you have and blow smoke up their wahooziewhatsits.' Always best to be frank and tell them the truth.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
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In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.
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Tanpinar presciently feared that to embrace the western conception of progress was to be mentally enslaved by a whole new epistemology, one that compartmentalised knowledge and concealed an instrumental view of human beings as no more than things to be manipulated.
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If you have a good movie in hand and it is successful, you gain confidence to experiment.
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I believe if you want to convey a complex philosophy, it's advisable to keep it simple: day-to-day lingo.
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I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.
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And, of course, the fact that Maurice Strong, a Canadian, was in charge made it important for us to pull up our socks and become leaders in this field. Now, here is a field we should be a leader in!
