Richard Scott Bakker Quotes
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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Catalan citizens are peaceful, European, and open-minded. We want to contribute to better international and European governance.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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I get homesick.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.
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Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you.
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If you want to be told what to think, well, I'm not in that business.
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Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.
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I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
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The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.
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The world is a big place and our brain is only three pounds.
