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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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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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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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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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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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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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 probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?'
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Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
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The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.
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You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.
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I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.
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I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.
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Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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I am happy that America continues to be, for many, a land of dreams. Dreams which lead to action, to participation, to commitment. Dreams which awaken what is deepest and truest in the life of a people.
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The whole world can hit a fastball if it's in the right place. I just try to change it up.
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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.
