Eddie Mair Quotes
Yesterday people were going past my window in t shirts and dresses. But that's the men at the BBC for you.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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I don't like allegories.
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I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
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Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.
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When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.
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You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'
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It's important to see how people see your work and how they feel about it. I know a lot of directors who are like, 'I never read reviews,' and I'm like, 'Yeah I can tell.'
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The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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I always wanted to do a movie that deals with America's horrific past with slavery, but the way I wanted to deal with it is - as opposed to doing it as a huge historical movie with a capital H - I thought it could be better if it was wrapped up in genre.
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The Players Coalition is an NFL-funded subversion group, so that's why I removed myself from them.
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The same way people are now paying a couple thousand dollars to fly to other parts of the world, people will be paying $50,000 to spend a weekend on a space station.
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There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate.
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Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.
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Yesterday people were going past my window in t shirts and dresses. But that's the men at the BBC for you.
