John Bright Quotes
This old aristocracy and Church-ridden, and tradition-ridden country will never grow wiser. Whilst we are fighting for supremacy in Europe the United States are working, and not fighting for it, but winning it all over the world.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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There's no regrets for me.
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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'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
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You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
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I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.
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There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
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I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.
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I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.
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My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.
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People forget that although we can pinpoint the price, we can only guess at future earnings. The past isn't much help: It simply tells whether a market was pricey or cheap.
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There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.
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I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.
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All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.
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For the first time in my life, I have to grab the monks by the throat. Me! The most religious man in the Kingdom! Because I've had enough- more than enough! My subjects and the elite among my subjects must obey!
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This old aristocracy and Church-ridden, and tradition-ridden country will never grow wiser. Whilst we are fighting for supremacy in Europe the United States are working, and not fighting for it, but winning it all over the world.
