Dave Whelan Quotes
If any Englishman said he has never called a Chinaman a chink he is lying. There is nothing bad about doing that. It is like calling the British Brits, or the Irish Paddies.
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My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.
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It's hard to sell a brand without having a face to it.
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When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously culture plays a tremendous role, otherwise you wouldn't have different artistic styles - but it doesn't follow that art is completely idiosyncratic and arbitrary, either, or that there are no universal laws.
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Learning is as much an art as teaching
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And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared.
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I aim my movies, as much as I can, at myself. I think that those movies have an interesting quality. They're very movieish. They are movie movies. Like I think Watchmen is a very self-aware movie. 300. Dawn of the Dead definitely. That's really where I've ended up.
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The inflation objective is explicitly a long-term or medium term objective. It focuses on, for example, core inflation to avoid getting involved in short-term fluctuations in energy prices and the like.
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Well I have a drug history and a public drinking problem and I am not the healthiest guy. So they just ran that I died of a drug overdose.
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It's a natural tendency of mine to not even listen to lyrics.
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Our directives must be reassessed.
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No one ever has or ever will travel quite the same path on earth.
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They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.
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Clean coal represents a breakthrough in the marketing of coal, but not in the science of burning coal.
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But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.
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I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for.
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It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.
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Teaching is enormously satisfying because I'm constantly learning more. Just constantly being exposed to new voices and new life experiences and new worldviews and new structural dilemmas and new characters - it's really exciting for me.
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If any Englishman said he has never called a Chinaman a chink he is lying. There is nothing bad about doing that. It is like calling the British Brits, or the Irish Paddies.
