Jenny Agutter Quotes
So I'm not really quite sure what Landis' plans were to make another one. The American Werewolf in Paris was a completely separate story.
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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You cannot exploit the advantages of getting above the atmosphere unless you are able to get up there reasonably large-sized telescopes and unless you are able to keep these telescopes pointing at one region of the sky for long periods of time to a high degree of accuracy.
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I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
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I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.
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I know what it's like to go very fast on motorcycles. Those moments, they stay with you.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.
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We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.
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Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.
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There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will.
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Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.
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In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing or newfangled basting techniques that we read about in magazines.
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I always thought I was singing American folk music.
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The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to. It has a much more percussive rhythm to it.
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I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.
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So I'm not really quite sure what Landis' plans were to make another one. The American Werewolf in Paris was a completely separate story.
