Jim Pattison Quotes
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In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.
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I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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I've covered the White House and been yelled at by presidents.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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I don't go out of the way to take special care of myself.
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Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.
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The constant attention is what is so difficult.
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I could wake up six in the morning, go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it, I could record.
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We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.
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The stream of civilisation flows on like a river: it is rapid in mid- current, slow at the sides, and has its backwaters. At best, civilisation advances by spirals.
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I think you can have a ridiculously enormous and complex data set, but if you have the right tools and methodology then it's not a problem.
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They can't censor the gleam in my eye.
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Someone came too sooner.
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Shakespeare is definitely my first love.
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In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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In the Sixties, conglomerates were all the rage.
