Michael Apted Quotes
I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something that was set in the trenches, so to speak.
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can't bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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In 'D.A.R.Y.L.' there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn't even use it. It can get kind of frustrating. But I don't regret that I decided to become an actor. Besides, if I don't like it at any time, I can stop.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I moved out at 18. I always studied classes and trained a lot, you know. I think nowadays is such a different time because there's so many channels promoting the celebrity aspect of things.
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I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.
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I'm excited about it, thrilled with the success thus far.
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Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.
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I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar, were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects.
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I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.
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Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
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How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!
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Whether it is television or film, the character on the page has to speak to me.
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The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant.
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The only thing that can set aside a law as wrong is a better law, or an idea of a better law. And the only thing that an give a law the quality of better or worse is the concrete result which it promotes or fails to promote.
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L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.
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I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something that was set in the trenches, so to speak.
