Mike Newell Quotes
It's my view that children are violent, dirty, corrupt anarchists. Just adults-in-waiting, basically.
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I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.
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As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.
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The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.
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I do feel guilty. I do. Especially about my family, my children. I write about them, and I know that this will haunt them as well through their lives. Why did I do that to them?
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I'm from the creative side of Hollywood. I'm up for anyone that wants to support my work. If you have eyeballs and give me a budget and are nice to me, I'm in.
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You have to feel good about yourself.
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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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I meditate. Like, I try. Not every day, but even if I'm not doing that meditation, the moments of my day have changed because I'm not on my phone so much. I'm intentionally not checking my phone every two seconds.
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Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.
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Don't call me Alessandro, or this could get ugly. Oh, then may I call you Alice?
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I have written the little work that follows . . . in the role of one who strives to raise his mind to the contemplation of God and one who seeks to understand what he believes.
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It is a positive change that our country and other countries in the region are making by giving a chance to women.
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I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?
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From where I was, I didn't see it. But coach Roberts said it was an unbelievable swing.
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I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.
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The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.
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Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
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Instead of criticizing, find out how to help.
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I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
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I was so happy when I went to Rome and I saw that the Romans eat them too, the squash blossoms. [...] No wonder I like the Italians!
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When people ask me why I don't eat meat or any other animal products, I say, 'Because they are unhealthy and they are the product of a violent and inhumane industry.'
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It's my view that children are violent, dirty, corrupt anarchists. Just adults-in-waiting, basically.
