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Good advertising is written from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.
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If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
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Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.
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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
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Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.
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It is extremely rewarding for me to be recognised by the University of Aberdeen. This is where I grew up and nurtured my dreams.
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I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma.
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If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.
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But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.
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I am not interested when people refer to a quarter or this year because the way I look at a country is what are its prospects over the next 20-30 years, and India's are good.
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Good advertising is written from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.
