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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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 surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
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I have done all the work I usually do and a little bit more, so hopefully that will produce results in at least one of the last two Tests.
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Directors are never in short supply of girlfriends.
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We need to practice acting in spite of fear, in spite of doubt, in spite of worry, in spite of uncertainty, in spite of inconvenience, in spite of discomfort, and even to practice acting when we're not in the mood to act.
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Dear God, Please teach me to forgive myself and others. Remove the walls that keep love out, behind which I am a prisoner. Heal my guilt and remove my anger, that I might be reborn. Make gentle my heart and strong my spirit and show me how to love. Please show me how to honor myself. Please teach me how to listen to myself. "Please program my mind to know itself, that I might at last be free. Teach me to appreciate your spirit that lives within me. Show me how to be good to myself, that I might know more fully the goodness of life. Amen.
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...makes my TV work look professional.
