Barry Venison Quotes
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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I get bored easily.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am,' because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.
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When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
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It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
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After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
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I started composing when I was around 13, and back then, people used to say that I needed to be a composer or a performer, but I can't be good at both of them. I could never understand why anyone would say that. Jellyroll did both, Bessie Smith did both, and so did I.
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Television itself is an intimate medium. It's in your house. You're visiting with these people... Not everybody's going to like it, just like not everybody likes everybody on the playground. I mean, that's life - especially if your job is to just go out there and be yourself.
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Theatre is relatively easy if you're British - you're living in the theatre capital of the world, London - there are so many places you can work, still. If I had begun to think of myself as a film actor, I think I would have got distracted.
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My entire life, I've always known that I wanted to be a performer, but I didn't know exactly how, where or when. I never learned or studied the craft, formally. I grew up doing martial arts and playing piano. But, something inside of me always said that I was going to do this, as far back as I can remember.
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I'm especially keen to work with good scriptwriters on stories we have developed.
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Amazon thrived because it implemented the online bookstore idea better than any of its early rivals did, not because it was the only company to have the idea or the first company to have the idea. It continues to grow only because it keeps trying to improve on the details of the idea and the way it puts it into practise.
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'Postcards' was just a way of slapping myself in the face and saying, 'You can do anything! Just go for it!'
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To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together.
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I've worked with a lot of first-time directors who kind of look to me for ideas and opinions and stuff, and I'm a team player.
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The thing about working on a TV show is that it becomes, very quickly, all consuming.
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Like so many of the current Chelsea team, Zola is unique.
