Eric Ambler Quotes
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
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My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.
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I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.
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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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I got a manager, and I thought, since I was going out on auditions, I should do this for a living. Then there was this moment on set when I realized I was having a lot of fun, and I really wanted to do this forever.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
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Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that, not just musicians who act.
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I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.
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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
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It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.
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I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.
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Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.
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Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals - the two things seem to go together.
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I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
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A day on a film set is maddening.
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The rage was in me, and if it wasn't for the rage, then I wouldn't know how to be calm. They feed off of each other. Just like when Malcolm X fed off Martin Luther King. They needed each other.
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I would have 55 dogs if I could. I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter.
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If a man gives way to all his desires, or panders to them, there will be no inner struggle in him, no 'friction,' no fire. But if, for the sake of attaining a definite aim, he struggles with desires that hinder him, he will then create a fire which will gradually transform his inner world into a single whole.
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There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.
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I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.
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The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.
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A lot of people are afraid to lie to me.
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Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it.
