John Major Quotes
September the 11th was a huge shock in the United States. It was the first time you had been hit at home in your own territory by terrorist on this scale.
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When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
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I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.
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It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.
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Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.
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I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.
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Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!
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So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.
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Hamish and I rarely go to launches or parties any more but prefer to spend our time hanging out together.
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I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.
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Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.
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I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school.
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When you have teachers saying, 'I don't have enough time for hands-on activities,' we need to rethink the way we do education.
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I've moved around so much my whole life, and I've gotten so used to being the Other in situations - the foreigner, the outsider. The first time I've ever felt like there was no separation between me and the other elements was in music.
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Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.
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I cannot imagine myself fitting into the existing curriculum. I am too self-willed for that and have had my own very definite ideas for a long time, very different from the existing ways, as to how architecture is to be taught.
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Of course I was in love with my father as a child. He was Daddy, and our house came alive in a special way whenever he walked through the door. He'd romp and play with us; my sisters and I would literally squeal with excitement when Daddy came home.
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My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.
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At the base level, a burger is a piece of meat and a bun with something on it. It's simple but it seems to make a lot of people happy.
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I don't really have funny things to say about politics. I wish I did, but I don't.
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Weird clothing is de rigeur for teenagers, but today's generation of teens is finding it difficult to be sufficiently weird. This is because the previous generation of teens, who went through adolescence in the sixties and seventies, used up practically all the available weirdness.
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'Barack Obama being elected. I think about how… um… how my sons will grow up only knowing a black President. Wells with tears I can’t explain how that’s changed America. There’s an optimism now that wasn’t there for black people.'
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September the 11th was a huge shock in the United States. It was the first time you had been hit at home in your own territory by terrorist on this scale.
