Michael Winterbottom Quotes
A lot of the aspects of the world of the film are amalgams of things that already exist.Michael Winterbottom
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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.
Pat Summitt -
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann -
By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
Orison Swett Marden -
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.
Otto Loewi -
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
Jack Prelutsky -
From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
Nancy Reagan
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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.
J. Philippe Rushton -
I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
Dallas Roberts -
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.
Faith Baldwin -
Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
Edmund Leach -
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.
Victoria Jackson -
The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
Jack Kilby
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I leave with sadness, but with pride: Dravid on retirement
Rahul Dravid -
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.
Bertrand Russell -
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.
Charles Baudelaire -
I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.
Ken Burns -
I'm not saying that every night of the week, my husband, ex-husband, our children and I all sit around together like one big happy family. But we do see each other frequently, and everyone loves each other, and we are all friends.
Keeley Hawes -
I consider myself pro-life, as I accept that the unborn is a human life with rights, and I do not support abortion on request or on demand.
Leo Varadkar
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People presume we've been somehow monitoring the entire sky at all frequencies, all the time, but we haven't yet been able to do any of those things. The fact is, all the SETI efforts to date have only closely examined a couple thousand nearby stars, and we're only just now learning which of those might have promising planets.
Frank Drake -
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
Fay Weldon -
I'm more private than people realize. I'm not that easy to get to know.
Shania Twain -
Cologne, Germany: 'Claud & I had a stroll in the centre of town afterwards & had great fun making the Hun men civilians get off the pavement for us .... It does one worlds of good to know how humiliating it must be for the Huns' (9 January 1919)
Edward VIII -
I was asked to lose weight by a network for a TV pilot. The conversation happens because you get a job, and your agent or manager calls, and they say, 'They are so excited about you. They just think there is no one better for this part, and they want you to look and feel your best. They really feel that that could include losing 15 or 20 pounds.'
Busy Philipps -
A lot of the aspects of the world of the film are amalgams of things that already exist.
Michael Winterbottom