Ransom Riggs Quotes
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Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
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Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?
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The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.
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Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.
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There is no love where there is no will.
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What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
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The way Woody Allen directs, there isn't a lot of direction. He kind of might give a few gentle suggestions, but he really says right from the first day, "Just make it sound natural, and if you don't like something, put it in your own words." And Woody Allen gives you a lot of freedom and just very polite.
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Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries.
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To be fully human is perhaps why I'm Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human.
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This is why magic is worse even than quantum physics. Because, while both spit in the eye of common sense, I've never yet had a Higgs bosun turn up and try to have a conversation with me.
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Acting and writing are the things I like doing. I don't like presenting that much.
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If somebody asks me why we played in Baku, I would say: People live there, homo sapiens live there.
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I look at writing as a medium of entertainment. You can get too precious about your stuff. It has to compete with everything else, like DVDs and CDs.
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When you're filming something, you have marks and spots you have to be in.
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Your life will be rich for others only as it is rich for you.
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There is no question there are differences between male and female brains. They are called sexual dimorphisms and you can point to different anatomical structures.
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I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.
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Racism has always been able to come up with a scientific veneer.
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It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
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I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up, with non-existent budgets. I didn’t want to be surrounded by comforts and colleagues, which you have when you’re a big time director. I wanted to write personal works.
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What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.
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Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.
