John Badham Quotes
When the movie was done, Number Five was crated up. Eric took him over to Germany; displayed him over there because Germans really liked this movie. It was very popular with them.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
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I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.
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There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.
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After a long period in which the desired direction for inflation was always downward, the industrialized world's central banks must today try to avoid major changes in the inflation rate in either direction.
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Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
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When the movie was done, Number Five was crated up. Eric took him over to Germany; displayed him over there because Germans really liked this movie. It was very popular with them.
