Alfred Gough Quotes
Television has always been a conversation. Movies come along and they're kind of like three-ring circuses, and there's a new one next week.
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I love the idea of getting up early on Sundays and walking to the market to pick up fresh fruits and vegetables. It's a good way to start my day, and it makes me feel like I've accomplished something before other people are even awake.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
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I believe women are the glue of everything.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
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I feel comfortable any position I play. It doesn't matter.
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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
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People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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I always say to my agents, you go through one of these big kind of movies, everyone makes money, but like, I said, 'I'm the one who's gotta go make it, and if I don't have my heart in it, and it's like a love affair, I'm not going to do a good job. Then, and I don't want to just get paid. I just, I don't want to do that.'
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My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see.
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The conversation people need to have is no longer about women assuming positions of leadership within the existing power structure, it's about the power structures themselves, it's about how to go about assuming power, how to change the structures.
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Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.
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... when demand is being destroyed by expensive oil just as expensive oil is incentivising increased production - it should come as no surprise that at some point the markets would react.
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Television has always been a conversation. Movies come along and they're kind of like three-ring circuses, and there's a new one next week.
