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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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.
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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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The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.
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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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You can instantly spot a Chanel woman, so I want to develop the Dior woman.
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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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Do you know why this world is as bad as it is?... It is because people think only about their own business, and won't trouble themselves to stand up for the oppressed, nor bring the wrong-doers to light... My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
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The thing that's so exciting when you're making a film is that it can be anything and there are no limitations on it.
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I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.
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A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers.
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A lot of the aspects of the world of the film are amalgams of things that already exist.
