Neill F. Marriott (Neill Foote Marriott) Quotes
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable.
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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.
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The first thing I did as a child was draw. I wanted to make animated movies. I think Disney's 'Cinderella' was the first movie I ever saw. 'Peter Pan' was the first movie I ever saw in the movie theater. I grew up with 'Dumbo' and 'Pinocchio' and 'Sword in the Stone.' Those were the movies I wanted to make.
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I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.
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Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.
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I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.
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The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.
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Dartmouth is such a special college with its rich history, dedicated student body, and, as I've been learning more recently, colorful customs.
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I don't like anything permanent; I have to be able to flee. You have to be able to flee at a moment's notice.
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The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?
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The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system-and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny.
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We can make this country the garden of Eden.
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I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.
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All my life, books have felt alive; some more so than people, or rather, some people. Alive - this has to do with me, I know, and not the books - in a way that some people aren't. Alive as teachers, alive as minds, alive as imaginative triggers.
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What shaped me the most would probably be when my dad passed away. For the rest of my life, I'll kind of feel like he's gonna come home.
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Nobody gets to pick what life gives them
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Love is making space in your life for someone else.
