Jessie Buckley Quotes
I think Wilkie Collins was a man ahead of his time, asking really important questions but also telling a really good and thrilling story.
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.
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It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.
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I love the idea of animation just because it removes the actor from the character, and you can be anything. I've been devouring 'Adventure Time' and 'Archer.' I'd love to get my hands dirty on either of those shows.
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My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?
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I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.
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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
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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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I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.
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I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.
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There came a point in time when Michael was under a great deal of pressure to alter the film in a way that was just disturbing to him. I had not seen the movie, yet. He phoned me in July of '92 to look at his version.
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I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.
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No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.
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I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.
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President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.
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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.
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I think it's important to be diverse, and I hope we continue to see that as a trend in the fashion industry.
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Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.
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You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.
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I grew up in Pennsylvania in a small town. Real small, like one high school and one movie theater. Well, there was a state college there, that was the only good thing about it.
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Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too lateUpon one of these depends his whole estate.
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I don't really get nervous for auditions, because I just see them as mini acting classes. There's no need to have an attachment to the outcome because it's out of your hands after that.
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I think Wilkie Collins was a man ahead of his time, asking really important questions but also telling a really good and thrilling story.
