John le Carre Quotes
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I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.
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I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.
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I'm so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women's feelings.
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We want a money that some government mandarin can't just whisk into existence with a pen stroke.
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Age considers; youth ventures.
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As an actor myself, I know we go where the work is, but I think it's sad the Lyric haven't found any homegrown talent.
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My first introduction to New Orleans was from the air, flying high over the city with a view of the land - and water - below.
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You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.
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When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. We used to make these silly, stupid short films, which, looking back now, were probably horrible.
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There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, you find that you're getting the same information out of a scene that you already have and a scene that's actually more powerful, so you have to make the tough decision to take it out.
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People who are short, they're often portrayed as the victim.
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For good or bad, there is a certain level of generalisation when it comes to my work. I want to break that perception. My decision to direct 'Bombay Talkies' or to present 'The Lunchbox' is an attempt to do that. These are the films that gel well with my sensibility, and it's unfortunate, it's not the perception out there.
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At first I thought it was infatuation. But woo, it's lasted so long. Now I find myself wanting to marry you and take you home. Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh. You, you, you, you send meI know you send meI know you send me honest you do.
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it has now become obvious that most of the state institutions, including the judiciary, the army, the security apparatus and most of the government departments, stood against him Morsi. They acted in a co-ordinated manner to foment a crisis aimed at impeding the president and forcing failure on him.
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When I analyse myself and my reactions or behaviour, there is the act and the actor. There is a division between the two and that creates conflict between 'what is' and 'what should be'.
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It is an interesting balance in trying to find players to make your team really good and at the same time running a financially sound operation. That is the challenge for every team.
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The biggest thing as I have gotten older is the calmness that's come over me.
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I don't have a constituency, and I'm not autobiographical in any way. I write these deeply moral books in a country which would prefer irony to anything with a moral tone.
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Speed is what makes the Premiership exciting. The millions who would have watched Manchester United and Chelsea would have seen a non-stop game in which the pace was electric even though the first half was a non-event. You could see a better technical game in Spain but for sheer frenetic movement there is nothing that comes close... Pace is more critical in the Premiership than in any other major league and if you don't have pace, you have to compensate with power or ability in the air and since Shevchenko has no power and is not particularly good in the air, he is in trouble.
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You should have died when I killed you.
