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

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• 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

• It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • School
  • Stupid
  • Enough

• It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.

  

  James Thurber

• I couldn't resist painting Orpheus and Charon on the River Styx. There was something strangely intriguing about seeing Orpheus playing his lyre as he is being shuttled across the river.

  

  John Rocco
  • Painting
  • River

• We gotta be proud to be Latino. It's almost like we cheating because we're American and we live by American customs, but at the same time, we got that Latino culture. We cheating; we double dipping.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Time
  • Live
  • American

• 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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  • Subjects