Carl Sandburg Quotes
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'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
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Declaring the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument will make this natural wonder more accessible. It will welcome people from all walks of life and maintain the mountains' wild character at the same time.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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Half the time, people will be abusing me on Twitter, and half the time, somebody will be praising me. So either it will go to my head, or I will take it to my heart. So better I stay away from it.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
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So-called reality TV, which dominates British channels, is destroying what made it cherishable to me and lots of others in the first place. I loved Alan Clarke, Ken Loach and Alan Bleasdale's work. In fact the first TV dramas I ever saw were 'Screen Twos' produced by David Thompson, who also produced a lot of Alan Clarke.
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I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.
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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
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When people ask me if I am a feminist film maker, I reply I am a woman and I also make films.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
