George Newbern Quotes
With a movie, the die is cast. It is what it is. With TV, it's a living organism in a way. Fans can have input, with the whole social media thing, and they can track what fans are liking and not liking.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.
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They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me – and it was such a backhanded compliment – they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.
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When I was a kid, I wasn't making my choices based on anything other than 'Did I want to work that day?' or 'Did being in school sound more fun?' And I don't remember ever reading a script and thinking, 'Is this going to be a fun part to play?'
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The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end.
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A woman in show business isn't honest with herself... so how can she be honest with another woman? We are, all of us, acting every minute of the day and night.
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I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to New York.
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My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.
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I dreamed big. So it's so great to be living my own dream. I'm working in an industry that I want to work in, and I'm doing something that I love every day. So I feel really lucky to have had so many opportunities.
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I was born and I live in a small village, where the centre of life is the square, and the small bar/cafe.
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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of human life is to grasp as much as we can out of the infinitude.
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New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class - the economy there is tourism, and one of the only outlets that black males have traditionally been allowed is to play jazz music, y'know?
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The Moguls is a story about guys that have all grown up together and are now in their late 40s, early 50s.
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This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
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With a movie, the die is cast. It is what it is. With TV, it's a living organism in a way. Fans can have input, with the whole social media thing, and they can track what fans are liking and not liking.
