Stephen Frears (Stephen Arthur Frears) Quotes
It never crossed my mind to make a film about Muhammad Ali or the Queen or any of them! They just come out of the blue.
Stephen Frears
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They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.
Owen Hart
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I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.
Barbara Hershey
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The question of likability is a bit of a puzzler for me. You know, I don't write people with likability in mind. It's more whether or not I find them compelling.
Patrick deWitt
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My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.
Natalie Dormer
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My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.
Zubin Mehta
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The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
D. H. Lawrence
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Back in my mind, I never, ever wanted to give up swimming; it was something that I would carry on with.
Natalie du Toit
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Now, see," Wes said, nodding at my plate, "this is going to blow your mind." I looked at him. "It's a waffle, not the second coming.
Sarah Dessen
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‘Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time-’That’s the sort of thing she would have written before the rise of advertising. The correlation is perfectly clear. Advertising up, lyric poetry down.
Frederik Pohl
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To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow change.
Orhan Pamuk
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Let's say you are driving in the U.K., and you are pulled over by the police for speeding, and you try to bribe the police officer with £300 to walk away. I guarantee you that at least 99 times out of 100 you are going end up in handcuffs, and you will be charged with the crime of trying to bribe a police officer.
Bryan Fogel
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It never crossed my mind to make a film about Muhammad Ali or the Queen or any of them! They just come out of the blue.
Stephen Frears
