Chris Menges Quotes
You don't want to have to chase the action. Get yourself in the right place and the action comes to you.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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I have fabulous children.
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People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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Tech companies tend to do tech best.
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I think it's natural when a team has such high expectations, under .500 halfway through the season, they're going to go after a brand new coach.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
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I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.
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I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.
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I look at some of my early stuff - back when I was 12 or 13 years old - and I was already doing cross-hatching back then. I don't know where I picked that up. I think I was in a hurry, and I wanted to shade something really fast, and I tried cross-hatching a shadow.
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I could be like everyone else and stop eating, but that wouldn't make me happy.
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So I think it's important to understand that your duly elected representatives have been consistently informed about exactly what we're doing.
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I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can't imagine going through that. If you know that's going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I'd rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?
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You don't want to have to chase the action. Get yourself in the right place and the action comes to you.
