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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God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.
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Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.
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We all come from different levels, and I think every human has their own relationship to violence, athletic violence and fighting.
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The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in space, and the sky is a complete sphere in the center of which is located, unsupported, our cylinder, the Earth, situated at an equal distance from all the points of the sky.
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It is only too easy to catch people's attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
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We did not catch it nearly as early as we should have,