Gene Littler Quotes
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately after that, I had a horrible betrayal where my brother, who worked for me, stole a lot of my money. He's in jail now.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to go to Britain's Central School of Speech and Drama, and my dad and I had a few tense words about that. He wanted me to go to British drama school.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.
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I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.
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My whole thing is feel free to hate me – I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.
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I sent 'Hell or High Water' to Peter Berg, asking if he'd like to be involved.
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It's certainly not a shock to find that the industry has no imagination. I think people don't know what it is I do. Because half the time you're talking to people who are in their 20s, and I've been doing this for over 25 years.
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There's a lot of improv in 'Girls'.
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The Islamic State is a threat to both the moderate Islam headed by Mr. Saad al-Hariri and, of course, for Hezbollah. There is a convergence, an anxiety of a common enemy... which is good.
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Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.
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If you never did anything for your own freedom, you're not worth a human being in my view.
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The concept of loyalty is a very strange concept. When loyalty is to be tested, the real answer is that may it never be.
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Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.
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Math prodigies are set somewhat apart from the more general-capacity prodigies, being seemingly possessed of a weird bit of wiring more than an over-all enhanced capacity for learning to do things.
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I probably hit the ball as far today as I did 40 years ago. That just shouldn't be.
