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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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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I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.
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When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.
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Fame really drove me into my house. I was very paranoid. I didn't like going out. I had no idea how to be comfortable with the press. I was very young. It was really hard for me.
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I won't do anything bad, and I resent very deeply bad people who haven't got the ability, who try to interfere with the kind of work I'm trying to do because nobody's going to benefit from it.
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Once you're known to be an alcoholic, that's how many people identify you, which could be a reason not to talk about it.
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Jim Cameron used to call me 'Special Ed.'
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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.
