Mel Smith Quotes
I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.Mel Smith
Quotes to Explore
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
A. S. Byatt -
I am fortunate: my parents told me the world was my oyster, when they could have said I wouldn't make it for a lot of reasons - rural, girl, small African country. So, no regrets.
Dambisa Moyo -
Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
Parker Harris -
I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don't go back and listen to my own music. I believe in closing chapters and moving forward. That's what gives me peace.
A. R. Rahman -
It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
Vince Vaughn -
Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.
Raf Simons
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You're not allowed to write about me if you haven't seen 'The Shawshank Redemption.' See it and then get back to me.
Zack Greinke -
Wal-Mart is an amazing success story. What I particularly admire very much about the late Sam Walton was his policy of valuing his employees. Giving value to employees is very rare in the retail industry. I also admire the strategies Walton used to build up his discount store concept.
Tadashi Yanai -
I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
Iain Banks -
In college, the guys aren't worrying about whether they'll be able to pursue their career dreams and still have kids.
Gail Collins -
I said from the very beginning, I don't want a big house, I don't want big grounds, I don't want the trouble with the maintenance and all of that.
Nancy Reagan -
Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we're sensitive to them, we respond to them with an immediacy that is stronger than anything written today on a word processor.
Walter Murch
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln -
...no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.
Karl Popper -
The fact that millions of people use the term 'morality' as a synonym for religious dogmatism, racism, sexism, or other failures of insight and compassion should not oblige us to merely accept their terminology until the end of time.
Sam Harris -
The old get older And the young get stronger May take a week And it may take longer They got the guns But we got the numbers Gonna win, yeah We're takin' over Come on!
Jim Morrison The Doors -
Today you have this horrible alliance between the far left and the Islamists and they’re using the modern media tool to shut people like me out by smearing us.'
Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.
Alice Munro
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You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.
Kevin O'Leary -
I drink no more than a sponge.
Francois Rabelais -
I know that I wouldn't mind going back to work if I could find the right script and the right crew to work with.
Mary Badham -
Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.
William Gibson -
Acting, for me, is giving to your co-actors.
Rajkummar Rao -
I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.
Mel Smith