John Britton Quotes
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After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro, and my mother was a full blooded Chippewa.
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Several southern actors are coming to Mumbai. Likewise, many Bollywood actors are appearing down South or borrowing ideas from southern films.
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Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
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The big challenge is looking ripped and lean without being too big because on camera, it's easy to appear thick.
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Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own terms.
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If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.
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I am interested primarily in the vast field of experience and sensation which neither literature nor a purely plastic art deals with.
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Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
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Music is something that is supposed to connect people on a pure level.
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Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.
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As the highest ranking American official in the United Nations organization, I came to understand thoroughly that the national constitutional processes of the member states define the status of territories under their sovereignty.
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I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.
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If you deprive yourself of something, you're going to want it more.
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It's not what you see on-screen that makes a performance. It's the things you should never know about - it's the secrets.
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It is like we are obliged to assume that the government is only doing what it says it is doing.
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For states in demographic decline with ever more lavish social programs, the question is a simple one: Can they get real? Can they grow up before they grow old? If not, then they'll end their days in societies dominated by people with a very different worldview.
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If we stop and look over the past and then into the future, we can see that the possibilities are growing greater and greater every day; that we have scarcely begun to reach the proper results from the field we have before us.
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To me, skin is alien and kind of weird; it weirds me out. It's strange, but it's also really intimate and personal; it's living, organic. That's how I want the music to sound; I want it to feel alien and strange, but also like it's got a heartbeat, like it's got a soul, like it's not made by a robot.
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I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.
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We did not catch it nearly as early as we should have,
