M. Night Shyamalan Quotes
I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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First responders will be on the frontlines if there is a terrorist attack in our communities, and we must provide them with the tools they need to do their difficult jobs.
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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When I put a quarter into an arcade machine or call up an emulated game on my computer, I do it to escape the world that is a slave to the time that makes things fall apart. I have never played these games to occupy my world.
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It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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Angulo presents a difficult challenge because he's a fighter who can punch and take a great punch.
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When I started off in England, HMV or Tower Records would come to meetings and be, like, 'We just don't know what this genre is.' I don't really fit in between Rihanna and Beyonce.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
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When I travel, I just take what I need and I run. I always have my briefcase stuffed with work, even when I go on a holiday.
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I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.
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I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
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I knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene and what comes out of the gene. But I had convinced myself I was not going to be a winner.
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There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
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While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers.
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The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity.
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The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of myself.
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Like most of the world's population I'm into coffee, but in a properly big and important way. My perfect weekend would start with a pint of coffee.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
