Eric Liddell Quotes
In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.
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I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.
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Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
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I think women are amazing for being able to show what they feel. I admire women who do. I think it's a mistake when women cover their emotions to look tough. I say let's own who we are and use it as a strength.
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As long as people want to see me do this action and sci-fi stuff, it would be wrong of me to deny the fans what they want to see.
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Acting is very immediate.
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This is where dreams-dreams, do you understand-come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.
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One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.
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Devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, and clever.
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After spending so much time in America, I started travelling with 'In Defence of English Cooking' by George Orwell. It's archaic and old-fashioned in its Englishness and reminds me of home.
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Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.
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I don't understand why we give up genres, and the Western is a great genre. It's a part of the rich history of cinema and who we are as we've evolved as people, as a community.
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The socialism I believe in is everyone working for each other, everyone having a share of the rewards. It's the way I see football, the way I see life.
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If you just want to help people out you end up being a good person. I mean there’s every single kind of horrible self-help book will tell you if you’re feeling down and you’re feeling depressed just go help someone out and it’s a cliché, you wouldn’t even say it it’s so embarrassing, except it happens to be true.
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I hate the word 'partner' so much.
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You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.
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We have to learn to think in a new way. We have to learn to ask ourselves, not what steps can be taken to give military victory to whatever group we prefer, for there no longer are such steps; the question we have to ask ourselves is: what steps can be taken to prevent a military contest of which the issue must be disastrous to all parties?
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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People are always alert to any change and skeptical by nature.
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This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
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In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.
