Simon Beaufoy Quotes

When you make a movie, a dramatization based on the real experience of a living subject, you cant airbrush that away into to a perfect movie arc.

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• The typical workday, particularly in startup mode, is from nine to six or nine to seven, then you take a two-hour break to work out and eat dinner. By that time, you're relaxed, and then you work until midnight or one A.M. If there was no break with physical activity, you'd be more tired and less alert.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Time
  • Work
  • Tired

• By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Up
  • Years
  • Build

• I remember there being a period of time when I had a baby, and I was so sleep-deprived that I'd get into having no filter, and that was not good.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Good
  • Remember

• In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • World
  • Art
  • Words

• It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Song
  • You
  • Should

• I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Love
  • Come
  • Excuse

• I don't like writing with real people in mind.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I want to be treated like a musician.

  

  Halsey
  • Want
  • Like
  • Musician

• I know dozens of authors who have had a lot of books published by New York, and they won't ever take another Big 6 contract since they've gotten a taste of the freedom, control, and money self-publishing offers.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Control

• I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.

  

  Major Owens
  • Technology
  • Effort
  • Aim

• Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Man
  • Knows
  • Rain

• Science has done more for the development of Western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred.

  

  John Burroughs
  • Done
  • Science

• In considering our traditional ties with the Commonwealth we should remember that it now differs greatly from the entity which existed 20 or 30 years ago. Many of us do not feel quite the same allegiance to Archbishop Makarios or Doctor Nkrumah or to people like Jomo Kenyatta as we do towards Mr. Menzies of Australia.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • People
  • Remember

• A line has to have a certain number of syllables, and the next line has to be its mirror image.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Mirror

• I don't think business news is just for old white men with money.

  

  Neil Cavuto
  • Men
  • Money
  • Business

• I'm the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.

  

  Donald Dunn
  • People
  • Happy
  • Mother

• Football lost its excitement for me.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • Lost
  • Football

• I don't think guys judge curvy women as much as women do. It shocks me how catty some women can be. In my whole life, I only had one guy break up with me over weight.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • Life
  • Up
  • Women

• I write most of my songs when I'm in a bad mood.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Bad
  • Mood

• We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.

  

  Joan Baez
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Violence

• I had never heard of Cingular, but they needed people to jump on trampolines. Well, when I was 13, I was a trampoline gymnast. I had actually won nationals in my age group. So it was like one of those perfect, unbelievable miracles.

  

  Nate Torrence
  • People
  • Age
  • Perfect

• I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • Writing
  • Real
  • School

• I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged.

  

  Elsa Peretti
  • Hate
  • Perfect

• When you make a movie, a dramatization based on the real experience of a living subject, you cant airbrush that away into to a perfect movie arc.

  

  Simon Beaufoy
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