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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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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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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I've never thought that what I do as an actor does anything for anybody, other than making them laugh once in a while.
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A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling.
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I think we all need to be looking to the better angels of our own selves. We don't need to be looking for great people so much as becoming great people.
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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind... The time is always right to do the right thing. Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
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I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.
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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.