Tony Scott Quotes
Research is what drives me. When I get a script, I go to the real world and touch the real people.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.
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I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.
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My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
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Lots of people speak Afrikaans. It's not a statement; it's just a language that we use to communicate. It has its own flavour; it's got its own slang. People laugh. People like it. They like us being open.
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Economics is not a discipline that comes to correct answers - economies are too complex.
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I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
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This is a budget that does not protect the vulnerable, it doesn't protect the jobs of today and it doesn't create the jobs that we need for tomorrow.
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No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul.
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I can't think of anything that's hit me harder in my life than when I learned that three of our youngest grandchildren were diagnosed with Niemann-Pick C.
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The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.
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I really don't find revivals very interesting because I like new work a lot. I feel like if you're going to pay me, then let me do what I do and let me try to solve some problems. Let me try to make something fly. Why would I do something that everybody has already done the hard work on? But that's me. Tons of people do revivals really well.
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I think that if you take somebody out of their comfort zone, they're going to dislike people because they're not liking themselves in a situation.
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People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage to their servile and salivating roots own dogs.
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Research is what drives me. When I get a script, I go to the real world and touch the real people.
