Sacha Gervasi Quotes
Being English definitely gave me some insight into these eccentric Brits puttering around Hollywood.
Quotes to Explore
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.
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My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
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A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.
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In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.
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You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.
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What is essential in love is what the French call 'amour fou.' What is that in English? Crazy love? That doesn't sound as beautiful. It's a total kind of love that not only embraces feelings, actions, but a kind of understanding of the world from the perspective of love.
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To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.
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I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages [in Guinea]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my language actually better than I could. And this hypocrisy - they tell us here in America [ that black people can't be intelligent].
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Being English definitely gave me some insight into these eccentric Brits puttering around Hollywood.
