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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I'm a very lucky girl.
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I joined an improv comedy group. Ours was named 'Quick Fire!' with an exclamation point. It was when I auditioned for that team and got on it and felt like... I'll just say I felt like I was good at it.
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On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.
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To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.
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My parents know how passionate I've always been about acting. I convinced them this was something that I was going to put my heart and soul into.
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God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own.
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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.
