Anthony Crosland Quotes
If it's the last thing I do, I'm going to destroy every fucking grammar school in England. And Wales. And Northern Ireland.
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.
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Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
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There are certain things that are too painful for people to even write about sometimes, and there are certain things that are too hard to read about again.
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Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.
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It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
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When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.
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I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.
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History will treat me right.
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I don't work with a stylist.
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We laid the foundation before we went to a major label.
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I'm really not a party person. I'm in the business of working with 100 people every day, so I don't revel in meeting a roomful of people in my leisure time.
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There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
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I was on a plane, and the steward was coming down the aisle. 'Asian chicken salad...Asian chicken salad...Asian chicken salad...' And he gets to me and he's like, '...chicken salad!' What does he think I'm gonna do? 'Dis is not de salad of my people! In my homeland, dey use mandarin orange slices...and crispy wonton crunches!'
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With hacky sack, somebody brought one to recess in sixth grade and it kind of all went downhill from there! The same with the yoyo's! One kid brought a yoyo one day and people started getting them. I just kept at it and found that I really loved it.
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There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.
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Oh, I'll tell you about 'Anyone Can Whistle' - the lesson I learned with doing that record is that the simplest songs are the hardest to do.
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I grew up loving watching movies, and at a certain point, I started to become fascinated with making movies. Then I went to film school, and I got to dabble with different aspects of moviemaking, and I ended up settling heavily into editing - editing was what I was really adept at, had a passion for.
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I didn't belong when I was in high school. Now people are trying to buy lips.
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If it's the last thing I do, I'm going to destroy every fucking grammar school in England. And Wales. And Northern Ireland.
