Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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There is always pressure in football.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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We grow small trying to be great.
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It ain't over till it's over.
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With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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When you first arrive in India, you think, 'God, these Indians treat their servants so badly! How awful!' It's something in the air, and something about the way people are, that very few people hold out. I wasn't able to. Everybody goes local. You stop saying 'thank you' and things like that.
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Making movies is hard for me. Being on set is very trying. I'm not good at being that communicative for that long. Editing is where I'm happiest.
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I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.
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We see the most striking example of humility in the lamb which will submit to any animal; and when they are given for food to imprisoned lions they are as gentle to them as to their own mother, so that very often it has been seen that the lions forbear to kill them.
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As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.
