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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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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Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it.
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It fell to my lot to orient our foreign policy during the period of bewilderingly rapid changes wherein one kind of world was ushered out and another kind was ushered in.
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If we don't pay attention to nonviolent protests, they are invisible, and it's as if they never happened. But I have seen first hand that if we do, they will multiply.
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The judge turned his back towards me, sitting back on his judge's chair, while I was in the witness stand being questioned. The whole courtroom was full of these anarchists, leftists, communists and Jewish lobbyists.
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It's my view that children are violent, dirty, corrupt anarchists. Just adults-in-waiting, basically.
