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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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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I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny.
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Fear Allah, for that is fortune; indifference to Allah is misfortune.
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Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.
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We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I think that doesn't make you a well-rounded person or artist. You have to be able to take the good with the bad and have opinions on things!
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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.
