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.
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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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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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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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Secrets are the kind of adventure she needs. Secrets are safe, and they do much to make you different. On the inside where it counts.
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For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.
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Graphene is dead; long live graphene.
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I got married to an amazing woman, had 2 awesome kids and toured with Jeff Beck, I can die a happy man now.
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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.
