Nigel Kneale Quotes
I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.
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I am a Buddhist.
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I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
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I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
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I completely agree with feeling the need for or the benefits of being pushed and of being directed on a project and collaborating.
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Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.
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In zombie horror, the juxtaposition of the calm world of the living and the menace of the undead inspires terror. In zombie comedy, like 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' it is played for laughs.
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I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
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You can live a wonderful life, you can love God with all your heart, and you can love your husband or wife very passionately and have a balance in your life. I live by balance.
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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
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Affirmative action has been generally cast in terms of race. I think women themselves are not as cognizant of the role affirmative action has played in opening the doors for women.
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Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst.
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While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.
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I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.
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I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.
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Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.
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America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God.
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Recovery from illness often seems like beginning life all over again.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.
