Bud Grant Quotes
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me paint. I - as I wrote in my novel 'My Name is Red' - watch with amazement what my hand is doing on the paper, what kind of line, what kind of strange, beautiful thing it's doing in spite of my will, so to speak.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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The petty logic of political parties cannot be allowed to stifle the French people's legitimate aspirations to safety and liberty.
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The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.
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The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.
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I always spend a good deal of time with the people I write about. I try and smell the normalcy of their lives. I try to look at the normal rhythm of their life.
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It would be nice to be in one place for a while and have a social life again and get a job. But I'm not qualified to do anything. That's the problem.
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You're imprinted in high school more than any other point in your life.
