John Schlesinger Quotes
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I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.
Idris Elba -
I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience.
Manolo Blahnik -
If you look closely at 'Breaking Bad' and any given episode of 'The X Files,' you will realise the structure is exactly the same.
Vince Gilligan -
I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.
Maeve Binchy -
I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.
Danica McKellar -
The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
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Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
W. G. Sebald -
Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking.
Nancy Gibbs -
Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.
Laura Schlessinger -
Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.
Vince Cable -
If you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you're in a good place and you're in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse.
Salma Hayek -
I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they can bring something to it and make it really special. I can't.
Eddie Marsan
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I do love that witches haven't really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.
Madchen Amick -
I've learned that if one is arrogant and if something bad happens to him, people won't want him to succeed. They will make more of an effort to bring him down.
Lapo Elkann -
Especially on 'Taken,' 'Taken' was not a big success the day of its release. It was released in France first, and it didn't do bad, but not as good as it did in the U.S.
Olivier Megaton -
Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad.
P. J. O'Rourke -
If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.
Hans Eysenck -
I have no skills. I'm bad at most things.
Kate McKinnon
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Even money, thought Roger on the way back to his own office, is not a bad bet. Of course, it depends on the stakes.
Frederik Pohl -
One thing my wife says is bad about me, is that I still care too much.
Aaron Spelling -
Perhaps true faith is a form of insanity.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch -
...the news might be single-handedly trying to bring about an environmental catastrophe, which it will then report on.
Charlie Brooker -
I'm really into short-story collections and essays; they're my jam.
Phoebe Robinson -
I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.
John Schlesinger