Oliver Emberton Quotes
Can a nasty, horrible person still produce good quality, uplifting and inspirational work?
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
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Being spontaneous is a blessing.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.
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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
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Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.
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A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of the harder-to-outsource, harder-to-automate, non-routine, creative, juristic - as the scholars call it - abilities.
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You can't throw money at the Internet to make it work - it really is all about the quality of the content.
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I have such a soft spot for the really cheesy zombie movies, but if I had to pick a really good one, I'd have to go with an actual TV show and say 'The Walking Dead'.
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Can a nasty, horrible person still produce good quality, uplifting and inspirational work?
