Eric Reid Quotes
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I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.
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I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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All you should try to do is behave with honour. If you can. At all times.
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The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
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I was home-schooled for my entire high school experience, so I never went to prom.
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You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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I'm the baddest among the bad guys.
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As a young man, I saw families prosper without reading because there were always sufficient opportunities for willing workers who could follow simple instructions. This is no longer the case. Children who don't read are, in the main, destined for lesser lives. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to change this.
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You can change the world, but if no one's listening, it doesn't matter.
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When you are playing, it is so hard to think about what life will be like after football. I understand. When you are playing, and you are young, you think you can play your whole life. You think it will never change. But it will change. You can't play forever. No one can.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.
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Nothing will change unless you talk about it.
