Ridley Scott Quotes
People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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I would say my career is in a very good place. I'm in a place of a lot of hope for what's next. I see something great, but I'm not quite there.
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God does arithmetic.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.
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I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
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I basically use Facebook and Twitter and MySpace to communicate with the fans. I don't think it's necessarily about advancing my career, but I do want to be able to connect with my fans. They are so important to me, and a lot of them have stuck with me since the very beginning, and that means so much to me.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing. It was garbage, yet very addictive garbage - because there's lots of violence, all the women take their clothes off all the time, and it's kind of fun.
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Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.
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And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
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I think I matured quite early, but what that does mean is I have moments of complete immaturity. When I come home, I don't want to be an actor. I just want to be a kid. I barely even know what money is.
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You can't fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name.
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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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I believe in one thing-that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
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I am absolutely delighted to get back into football with Livingston.
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When I modeled, I lived in Europe and worked all the time. I did runway, and that's all I did.
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A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage.
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Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.
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Generally I find that kids ask better questions than you get with adults. Something that kids will do a lot is, they're so nervous, and they're not really paying attention, so they'll ask the same question someone just asked. And you're trying to be nice and not embarrass them any more than they are already.
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Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because it's the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. It's such a responsibility.
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Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.
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People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.
