Ozzy Osbourne Quotes
But the thing with us was, we didn’t really need anyone to make us world famous – we were already halfway there.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.
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America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.
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New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
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Charan is very hard-working and non-egoistic, given the family he comes from. He is very open to listening, and he surrenders himself completely to the director. It was lovely to work with an actor like that.
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Much before I entered films, my dad walked into my room and saw me busy drawing something at 3 A.M. He stood there for some time and said, 'Whatever career choice you make, you are going to be successful.' I'll never forget those words. It gave me the confidence to be who I am today.
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The thing that runs through the British film industry even today is a lot of unsung movies are financially the bigger ones. Even though they weren't always the greatest of movies, something in them was very potent which people loved.
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People are usually so disappointed with book-to-movie translations.
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We're always looking over our shoulders, 'what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one - am I making the right career move?' When you're young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.
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My family is really supportive. We fight, and we talk, and we lie, and we tell the truth - not usually in that order - and I really enjoy growing with them and fostering that dynamic.
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I think it's getting a little ridiculous, to tell you the truth. We've got to realize what we're playing for. Now's the time to want it more than anything. ... I'm very surprised about the attitude and stuff that's happening. It seems like the willingness to go out there and give it all you've got to win is just not there.
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The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.
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I'm smart enough to know, 'Don't try and make any headlines.'
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But the thing with us was, we didn’t really need anyone to make us world famous – we were already halfway there.
