Adam Lindsay Gordon Quotes
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I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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First and foremost, I look for a great script. Then, the team that I am working with. Only then, we will be able to come up with a good film.
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If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
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In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'
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That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.
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I'm used to being part of 'Game of Thrones' and going into something where you're a small part of something else. You don't want to hold anything up because they've got such a well-oiled machine going.
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Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.
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I don't put on makeup when I'm getting ready for a game, because why would I? I am gearing up for battle. How is mascara or eyeliner going to help me win?
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Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
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I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.
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Perfectionists are their own devils.
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I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
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Making a big Hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card.
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For 'Filth,' we had about 12 producers on the thing. The opening credits go on for months. Most of them are actually financers rather than producers. And the only way that we could raise the budget without interference from a studio was to have a lot of different financers on board.
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Some people call me scrappy - and that's because I am.
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But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?
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If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
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And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen.
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It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.
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We were born ahead of our time. Don't forget that the riot-grrl scene had a lot to do with making The Slits a legend, and that didn't happen until the early '90s. We couldn't get together before then, because the legend hadn't been built yet. In the 2000s, we've become bigger than life in that way. It's become really important for The Slits to be here now, but idealistically, we should have done it in the '90s.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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There were about seven guys that stayed in the 70s and were real patient throughout the whole day.
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In a thousand years we shall all forget The things that trouble us now.
