Hugh Lofting Quotes
If I had my way... there wouldn't be a single lion or tiger in captivity anywhere in the world. They never take to it. They're never happy. They never settle down... You can see it in their eyes.
Quotes to Explore
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With a first season, you never really know how viewers or the network are going to react to a show.
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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If I were to continue to work in an established mode, it stands to reason the work would be limited by this - that it would never surpass the prior work in quality.
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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
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I tend not to wear accessories. I'm not one of those gals with a drawerful of amazing jewelry. I don't even have my ears pierced! But I have one bracelet that never comes off my wrist.
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I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.
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I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
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One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.
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I think everyone in Hollywood works on multiple things because you never know what's going to happen with your projects.
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I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.
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Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.
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I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.
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Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.
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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
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My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and watch TV with him.
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When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.
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I'd just like to think that there's some kind of underworld where whoever's been lost at sea is there... I dunno, there probably isn't, but I'd like to believe there is.
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The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people's preconceptions of what they have in their heads.
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If I had my way... there wouldn't be a single lion or tiger in captivity anywhere in the world. They never take to it. They're never happy. They never settle down... You can see it in their eyes.
