Ridley Scott Quotes
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
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When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.
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Between 12 and 14, I shot up a ridiculous amount. The muscles were struggling to stretch and grow at the rate my bones were growing. It gave me problems with my back and my hamstrings.
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When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many.
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Life isn't always really glamorous and fabulous. It's about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty.
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Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.
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My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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I don't want to tell people what I make. It's a lot more than I ever dreamed of as a kid. I never think about it.
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I'm so crazy about making albums and singing and dancing.
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I adore my family. I don't love their politics. I think they're wonderful parents. They were dreadful at parenting.
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You know, 'Star Wars' - even when it gets dark, it comes back to the light - it makes you feel good. I think families enjoy watching it and sharing in it.
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I disoriented myself from everything about being a human being and just played and played and played and sang and sang and sang.
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Asian Americans haven't had as many opportunities as other people to build their careers in Hollywood, just because there hasn't been that much of an interest, especially in Asian American males.
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I'm not one of those artists who doesn't want to play their most popular songs.
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I don't think that three minutes of music on a commercial record is going to bring paradise, but I feel like there is power in music and power in our words and power in what we put out into the world.
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I grew up in the Fifties and Sixties and remember how unpleasant all kinds of food could be then.
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I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
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Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.
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That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.'
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I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.
