John le Carre Quotes
I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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Stand-up comedy is a science. Every comedian is a psychology major, naturally.
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I think what's dangerous about marriage is the way it can make you feel like you've got it all wrapped up. Like you're done: you've found your spouse, you've married him or her, and you don't need to think too much more about it.
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I'm not in the movie business anymore, and hardly any 70 year olds are. I always ask the producers: 'Are there no 70-year old vampires?' Apparently there are not - or even zombies for that matter. I guess they all get eaten.
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The best design work is really done when you spend more time with people, when you have the opportunity to be of the same mindset and the same incentives as the founder of the business.
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We searched around the globe and looked at well over a hundred 'Marco Polos,' came down to the wire, and went back and looked at our Italy tapes, and we realized that we had overlooked someone. That was Lorenzo Richelmy.
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I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.
