Geoffrey S. Fletcher Quotes
If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.
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J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
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Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
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Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
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The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it was in France or Poland. It was simply too dangerous.
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It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.
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There was a girl who messaged me and said she was on the verge of taking her life, then 'Battles' came on just in the nick of time.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.
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A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.
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I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.
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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.
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Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.
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For many, many years, I thought that I wasn't good enough or that I would never be able to create something that could touch other people the way books have touched me. There's nothing better than having a lifelong dream come true.
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What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind.
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If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o’-the-wisps of the imagination.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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You're playing touch-butt with that dork in park, the pony tail.
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If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.
