Tony Scott Quotes
The real world is where I get to educate and entertain myself. I go and touch the real world and touch real people. That's my way into movies.
Quotes to Explore
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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Samsung has drastically altered the rule that big screens mean huge phones. Even this smaller of the new Galaxy S models has a larger screen than the biggest iPhone, but it's much narrower and easier to hold and to slip into a pocket.
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One of the first coaches I worked with on the national team told me that I was too skinny, too puny, and had no natural acceleration. He said I'd be better off looking for another facet of sport to follow. That was a really, really bad moment. For a long time, I felt as if my dad was the only one who had faith in me.
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My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money.
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The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.
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It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
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It is the responsibility of all the Sudanese, especially the political leaders and the media, to strengthen social cohesion through the proper understanding of the dynamics of unity, if they really want our country to remain united.
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I'm kind of a grinder. I'm a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights.
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I have often been called a political opportunist simply because I've had friendships with those from varied spheres of the political scenario. It's risky to even have hi and hello relations now with persons from a particular domain. But I think it has got more to do with that spectrum than it has to do with the people in it.
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Do the best job I can, not hurt our fellow beings on this planet, that's my religion.
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A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.
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They don't patronize me for being a woman. Nobody puts me down.
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An adaptation I was working on of Trollope's 'The Pallisers' has been axed by the BBC... I was also going to do Dickens' 'Dombey and Son' but they've asked me to do 'David Copperfield' instead.
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I think writers are born, not made.
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I was always a bit of a class clown.
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The pressure is on the big teams.
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I said and stand by it. I said that race was a part, and there was a part, that alt-right part, that was a part of the whitelash. And if you listened to the whole quote, you would agree with what I said.
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There's not really any safe places on the Internet.
Chad Hurley -
My goal as an actor is always to be as truthful as possible, and to find the truth in the material I am representing. So I think that it’s the same with performing music. But in a way, performing your own music, it’s easier to find the truth in it, because it’s coming from yourself. There’s no translation needed.
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I have always been intrigued by other cultures, and traveling to foreign lands has always been a part of my personal passion for learning about our world.
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For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.
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The real world is where I get to educate and entertain myself. I go and touch the real world and touch real people. That's my way into movies.
