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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The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power.
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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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Yeah, I’m a great kisser.
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Three women in my family, close relatives, have had breast cancer, and two have died from it, and still I never thought it could happen to me. I didn't even regularly check my breasts.
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We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs, and instead cultivating a generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized tests.
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
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My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.
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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.
