Nigel Kneale Quotes

Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.

Nigel Kneale

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• I have an older brother who is an actor as well.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Brother
  • Actor
  • Well

• I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Brother
  • Famous
  • Big Brother

• The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Career
  • Parents
  • Education

• I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Parents

• When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.

  

  Yash Chopra
  • Today
  • College
  • Brother

• There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Night
  • Faith
  • Eyes

• I was lucky enough to have an older brother who shared the splatter flicks with me, and I had parents who were cool and involved enough in my life to allow me to see them. I think my folks appreciated that I looked at these movies as a creative outlet... almost like magic shows, if you will.

  

  Adam Green
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Cool

• My brother and I were separated when I was a child; we went with different parents.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Different
  • Parents
  • Brother

• My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Up
  • Good
  • Parents

• For everyone, 'Star Wars' has been a part of their lives in some capacity. I remember watching it very early on with my cousins and my brother, and we were all cuddled around the VHS player, which sounds very old-fashioned, but that was the way then.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Remember
  • Player
  • Star

• I love Lil Wayne; that's like my little brother. He's just the coolest dude on Earth.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Earth
  • Like
  • Brother

• You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Mother
  • Know
  • Brother

• I'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart's little brother. Everyone figured, this is a joke, Owen's going to get squashed.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Brother
  • Shadow
  • Everyone

• In high school and college all my friends and my brother wrestled.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED. My brother was big into his computers, and when he moved up to a proper PC, I took charge of the Amiga.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Up
  • Running
  • Brother

• To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Nature
  • Relationship

• I'm used to shifting languages because my father used to speak to us, to my brother and I, he used to speak in English. He wanted us to be quite fluent in English, especially when he was trying to correct our behavior; he would do that in English.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Trying
  • Father
  • English

• Together in Britain we have lit a flame that the ages shall not extinguish. Guard that sacred flame, my brother Blackshirts, until it illuminates Britain and lights again the paths of mankind.

  

  Oswald Mosley
  • Together
  • Brother
  • Lit

• Obama is like the kid brother whose only standard for judging his own achievements is the records his big brother set.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Brother
  • Judging

• I think the best developers can learn any language; if they are a good developer, they can learn whatever. But the raw talent, the ability to learn it and do it and demonstrate the ability is helpful.

  

  David Cohen
  • Good

• I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Sound
  • Cliched
  • Soppy

• I'm not fake in any way.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Fake
  • Anyway

• Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.

  

  Nigel Kneale
  • Brother
  • Stunt