Robert Falcon Scott Quotes
As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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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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Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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I don't know what love means.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.
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We have an epidemic of gun violence in America, and in trying to understand how that has happened, part of what we need to do is help equip our children to respond not with fear but with kindness. This has to be the way we go forward.
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Anything with the title 'Breaking The Barriers' means a lot to us, and to myself in particular, because if it wasn't for those who broke the barrier of color before me, I would not have the opportunity to live the life I'm leading right now.
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As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.
