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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It’s just that everything is so . . . unreliable lately.” “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water,” he said. “Is that a quote?” He nodded. “Rabindranath Tagore. He’s a great writer. You should read him.
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Stop trying, stop struggling; begin to be calm, to trust in the higher laws of life, even though you do not see them; they are still there.
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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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It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let alone resurrection wonder, to another. It’s the very nature of wonder to catch us off guard, to circumvent expectations and assumptions. Wonder can’t be packaged, and it can’t be worked up. It requires some sense of being there and some sense of engagement.
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We did not catch it nearly as early as we should have,
