Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes
Make peace with the knowledge that you can't have everything you want. Why? Because it's more important for us to get everything we need.
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.
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My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.
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Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
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The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.
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I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.
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If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.
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I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.
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Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!
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A lot of people kind of want to wait until you're off a show before they book you into a movie.
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Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.
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A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
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Make peace with the knowledge that you can't have everything you want. Why? Because it's more important for us to get everything we need.
