Michael Winterbottom Quotes
We always had the idea that there might be two slightly different versions of the same thing.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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I know I can serve Hawaii and our country well in the U.S. Senate, know we can mount a solid statewide campaign, know we have a good chance of prevailing.
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Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
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As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.
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I'm easily entertained.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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You are the music while the music lasts.
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I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.
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When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.
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'Steve Jobs' is my seventh movie. I believe, if you added them up, I don't think there is more than a total of 10 minutes that takes place in a person's home. They're all in offices, courtrooms, laboratories, things like that.
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I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
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I went to the opening of 'Sister Act,' and I had such a great time. I had no idea what it was about, and I had never seen the movies. But I heard the show went through some major last-minute craziness in previews, and man, opening night was really fun and really entertaining.
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You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.
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Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
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I like befriending my collaborators because I'd rather make music with people I like than people I pretend to like.
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The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.
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The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
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My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.
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We always had the idea that there might be two slightly different versions of the same thing.
