Geoffrey S. Fletcher Quotes
I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces.
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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Think and grow rich.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.
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Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
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I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.
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I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.
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When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him, "What was that, George, what were you doing?" And he said, "They were sleeping." You're always trying to catch them.
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Unfortunately, there are mental invalids of every age who exist on other people's terms. It's lazy for older persons to let others make up their minds for them. People have to overcome that.
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I'm a musicologist, and I know that this is very rare. As a matter of fact, it's unique in the history of jazz, this group that I'm performing with, this trio. No other trio does these kind of things. I mean, it's an experience you will only hear with this group. It's a one-time experience in life, if you don't come back and hear us again, which would be different anyway.
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I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces.
