Richard Adams Quotes
You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.
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Every dude needs a well tailored suit. I'd say well tailored suit, a leather jacket, and a pair of jeans that really fit are vital in your wardrobe.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
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I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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Art is born of humiliation.
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I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.
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The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve.
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When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.
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It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.
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This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.
Garry Kasparov -
By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.
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Some people believe the U.S. can't compete in the design and manufacture of sophisticated products. I think we absolutely can if we pull together. We have shown that we can do that in commercial airplanes, and we can absolutely prove that we can do that in automobiles.
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I realised that music controls me more than I control music. I had to write songs that were convincing me that things would get better.
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With a smaller setting, you have a lot more freedom and flexibility within a given moment, but not necessarily the velocity you have with a big band.
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I'm an average girl with an average family - and I hope people can see that.
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I used to get quite upset that I'd make friends with a guy or a girl and then within the space of three years we'd move and go and live somewhere else, and you'd have to say goodbye to that person.
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Usually, I think, every film I've made has been a book, and I've always read it.
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I remember trying steroids very briefly in the 1989 -1990 off season, and then after I was injured in 1993, I used steroids again.
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Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.
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You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.
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It's really cool to see people show up at the shows night after night, and they're screaming the words of the song.
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My brother Steve, who was a few years older than me, had 'Bad' on tape, and I remember listening to 'Smooth Criminal' and just thinking it was the coolest thing ever. I must have been five or six at the time, and I remember walking around school by myself thinking I was Michael Jackson. I wasn't dancing, exactly - more like walking musically.
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We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.
