Geoff Mulgan Quotes
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There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.
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In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
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In the south, whether it is a small film or a big film, everybody sees it. So, there is always something for everybody to come, see, and enjoy.
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The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
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I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.
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When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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Pour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a lot of space, it may surprise you where they'll go and the shape they'll take.
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'When Marnie Was There' was the first animated film I've ever done.
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To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.
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I'm not a violent person.
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When you see all the medals won by Team GB, you can just see how much it means to each and every athlete, so it just feel like it's a little bit of a missed opportunity - but I'm only 23. I have just got to get on now and keep going.
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My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.
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A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.
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New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture.
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Writing for me can be homework. I do get a lot from it in the end. But I hate doing it.
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I feel like when the task is more difficult for me it's more exciting.
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Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it gave to the dreams and constructions of Western man. That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.
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I hope you're very careful working, eating and drinking when the heat is so great--there are temptations there which at home you are free from--beware the juicy fruits, and the cooling ades, and cordials, and do not eat ice-cream, it is so very dangerous.
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It's not at all my objective to become an Asian-American star.
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Every day I left that place I felt a little bit dirty about it.
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The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price to pay for having been brought to that dependence. Meanwhile, the trouble is that relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing has yet been done.
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It matters more how governments behave than how big they are.
