Jens Martin Skibsted Quotes
The cost of building large airships can be prohibitive. The entry barrier is considerable and could be a show-stopper for large-scale projects.
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They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
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I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the backbone of the economy of South Sudan.
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Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.
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I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.
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I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
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I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.
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I'm always the interrogator. When I was an actor in rep, I always played sinister parts. The directors always said, 'If there's a nasty man about, cast Harold Pinter.'
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I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist. I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing.
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After so many books and so many years of writing, I have a good idea of my strengths and weaknesses. I love the process of writing and, if I allowed myself, I would write far too much every day. One weakness which I've struggled to overcome is my tendency to having my characters ruminate for pages.
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I loved the writing process. I loved it.
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South India has beautiful villages.
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I'm proud of Larry Sanders and proud of every single person who went on that journey. It's a very special show to me, and I've learned a lot of lessons from it. I need to find something where I can learn some more lessons, and then I'll do that project.
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In the 1970s, a lot of critics didn't understand video. I got a lot of bad reviews. But film-makers didn't understand what we were doing, either. There were actual fistfights between film-makers and video-makers. I was witness to one.
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Sadism is plainly connected with the need for self-assertion. At the same time it cannot be separated from the idea of defeat. A sadist is a man, who, in some sense, has his back to the wall. Nothing is further from sadism, for example, than the cheerful, optimistic mentality of a Shaw or Wells.
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... rarely if ever does one feel sure one knows enough to go ahead with much of anything new. You bank on faith and courage and the ability to learn on the job.
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I really understand the idea of pride and honour. I have that in my family, so I understand it completely.
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I think having a child makes you calm down. You sit still.
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The cost of building large airships can be prohibitive. The entry barrier is considerable and could be a show-stopper for large-scale projects.
