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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It's a completely different thing, but there's so many things I learned from being an athlete that helped me in business. The only risk is not taking the risk. You've got to take that step.
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Technological progress - and it is a pity more do not appreciate it - is the one sound approach to increased employment and higher wages. There is no other way. Irrespective of what is being said to the contrary, new industries can be created, present industries can be expanded, unemployment can be eliminated in a practical way
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The most disappointing businesses, for me, are the ones where the people flat-out lie. I had one in Queens where I gave them a couple hundred thousand dollars and they started spending it on themselves.
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In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father.
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Being English definitely gave me some insight into these eccentric Brits puttering around Hollywood.
