Oliver Emberton Quotes
One can be a technical master - full of craftsmanship, but not in most senses an artistic master.
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I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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I read somewhere that abs are made in the kitchen, and I'd like to agree. I like to think that I try to eat pretty clean, pretty good food.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
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I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.
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I'm just very body-conscious. Sometimes I'm really proud that I don't look like other pop stars. But there's also moments where I'm like, 'Ugh, I wish I had abs like Bieber.'
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Ideas are cheap and easy, and there are a lot of them.
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Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.
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There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me, you know and they'll say, 'Well, this is Walter Mosley, the mystery writer.' I don't like that. Because I do many things.
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Some people aren't great with babies, or they're not great with a smaller child - it's not that they're bad mothers.
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I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college.
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We're from Athens, GA.; we're big Bulldog fans, and I remember watching A. J. Green, David Pollock, David Greene. We were big Cowboys and Falcons fans.
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I think I would go for a Michael Phelps kind of guy.
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But I'm also a vegetarian so there's another factor I guess.
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We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.
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I'm very inspired by past music.
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My late wife Olympia was Goan and I've been to India many times. I love the food there. We used to do our shopping in Southall, where you can find cheap but wonderful fruit like mangoes, vegetables and spices. I didn't do much of the cooking, as Olympia did a lot - I was the under-chef and did some of the chopping.
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I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.
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Von has a lot of game. He is an aggressive player, but sometimes it is good to have a wild horse out there who can push guys and challenge people.
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One can be a technical master - full of craftsmanship, but not in most senses an artistic master.
