Jimmy Sangster Quotes
A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
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About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
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Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
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The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
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There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
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I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.
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It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it.
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When you begin your work, nothing exists. When it is finished it looks as if it just happened, spontaneously, effortlessly, convincingly. It looks as though it had been there all along.
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His hustle was wrong, his mind was his own, but the man lived alone, oh, Superfly.
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Most harm is done by people who are awake.
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A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face.
