Eddie Mair Quotes
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
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Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
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I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
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We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us.
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Let your children go if you want to keep them.
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I feel as though I would be delighted to come back into working in the film world, and working in the theater world again. I'm just gonna see what happens.
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Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.
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The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.
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It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they could be down 30 points but that's what they do. Okay, so you made a dunk. Get back down the floor on defense!
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Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
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True democracy consists not in lowering the standard but in giving everybody, so far as possible, a chance of measuring up to the standard.
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The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.
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It's much more powerful to say I'm working to reduce spending, deal with our nation's deficit, push back on the federal government, and give specifics for that rather than just say, 'I'm a conservative.'
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I definitely paid my dues, and I'm grateful for everything and for my good friends.
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What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
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We are all in this together. We want to have, I suppose, a single point of entry so that anyone coming near a disability service can get a very complete picture. Government needs to understand that picture, and we need to be able to offer somebody a one-stop shop.
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...makes my TV work look professional.
