Michael Apted Quotes
When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep.
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You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.
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Loyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.
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My elder sister used to get the fashion magazines, and I would go through them and find things I liked and buy fabric and copy them. But I hated what I looked like. I mean, I was sooo skinny.
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If you’re passionate about something then it will definitely work out for you. You should never stop believing in something, and you shouldn’t listen to anyone who tells you otherwise. Never give up on something you love.
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Freedom is the world of joy.
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You know, if you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn't your sport.
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Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.
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I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
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Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching.
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Look at what is broken in society, figure out how to make it better, and then, around that, formulate a business.
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Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.
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How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?
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Be a voice not an echo.
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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.
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I read fashion magazines all the time. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.
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Once you finish a book, you let it go out into the world to seek its fortune.
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But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for.
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When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep.
