N.J. Berrill Quotes
Life can be thought of as water kept at the right temperature in the right atmosphere in the right light for a long enough period of time.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
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'Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past. But a man may wear himself out just as fruitlessly in seeking to understand the past, if he is totally ignorant of the present...This faculty of understanding the living is, in very truth, the master quality of the historian.'
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I went to Africa without the perspective of a balance between teaching people the truth, which has been my calling, and helping people who have physical problems, like AIDS and orphans and hunger.
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
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The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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As long as we deliver services with the highest level of quality and integrity, I'm happy.
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Life can be thought of as water kept at the right temperature in the right atmosphere in the right light for a long enough period of time.
