Michael Winterbottom Quotes
A lot of the aspects of the world of the film are amalgams of things that already exist.
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We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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In nerve-free multicellular organisms, the relationships of the cells to each other can only be of a chemical nature. In multicellular organisms with nerve systems, the nerve cells only represent cells like any others, but they have extensions suited to the purpose which they serve, namely the nerves.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.
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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
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That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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I leave with sadness, but with pride: Dravid on retirement
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I do not believe that science per se is an adequate source of happiness, nor do I think that my own scientific outlook has contributed very greatly to my own happiness, which I attribute to defecating twice a day with unfailing regularity.
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The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
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India-Seychelles relations have been characterized by close friendship, understanding and cooperation.
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There's no reason to feel embarrassed about presenting your product or service if it solves a problem.
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I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.
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I am not old, - I cannot be old, Though threescore years and ten Have wasted away, like a tale that is told, The lives of other men: I am not old ; though friends and foes Alike have gone to their graves, And left me alone to my joys or my woes, As a rock in the midst of the waves.
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One Whitman is miracle enough, and when he comes again it will be the end of the world.
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'Cloud 9' is an action/romantic comedy that focuses on the competitive world of snowboarding. We have glamorised it to so that all the players are on the cover of magazines, have all the interviews, and be on the television: so it is very high stakes.
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The professionals are going to be joined by the average Joe. Everybody's a publisher.
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I've come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
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A lot of the aspects of the world of the film are amalgams of things that already exist.
