Ridley Scott Quotes
What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.
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The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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The British have always made terrible parents.
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Clients don't expect perfection from the service providers they hire, but they do expect honesty and transparency. There is no better way to demonstrate this than by acknowledging when a mistake has been made and humbly apologizing for it.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
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Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me.
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I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.
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The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio – it sent me a bit mad.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.
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I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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Sometimes I wish I was more comfortable just saying what I thought and getting my point across.
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I was mainly raised by a working mum who didn't have much time or inclination for making food. So I had three or four basic meals: fish fingers and a tomato; a packet scotch egg and a tomato; pasta with a tin of tomatoes; and extra mild plastic-y cheddar chopped into cubes with bits of cucumber.
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It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.
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I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
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Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top.
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So just as I want pilots on the planes that I fly, when it comes to monetary policy, I want to think that there is someone with sound judgement at the controls.
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'I love thinking that there is magic in the world, that there are people in the world with amazing abilities that we just don’t know about.'
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Power
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When I moved to the United States from Asia in 2001, I experienced a more rigid concept of gender, but somehow I was allowed to change my name and my gender marker. Why is there that paradox? How do I get those two things to be the same?
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We are going to help the young talented athletes become world champions.
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What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.
