Charles Neaves, Lord Neaves Quotes
To have a thing is little, if you're not allowed to show it, to know a thing, is nothing unless others know you know it.
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My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
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I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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Normally, when congee is served, the different condiments and garnishes are placed in little bowls on the side so diners can make their own personal creations.
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.
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The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.
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I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
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I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.
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After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
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I grew up listening to most of my parents' music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.
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I have a problem with procrastination. I have a great deal of difficulty deciding what to wear. It's a woman thing.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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To have a thing is little, if you're not allowed to show it, to know a thing, is nothing unless others know you know it.
