Geoffrey Madan Quotes
Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores.
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
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I have good spacial awareness, and I'm pretty comfortable with a sword.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.
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I love eyebrows, so brow pencils and brow shadow are really important to me.
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I'm a big breakfast person: Eggs, bacon and yogurt is my go-to meal before a round. On the course, peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches are great for energy, but a protein bar works, too.
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It's not my job to convince people that Koresh was the final messenger or had this final message.
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You always start a fight scene or an action scene with, 'What are we learning about this character at the moment, and how are we gonna arc him or her in the next three minutes,' and it's no different with 'Deadpool' or 'Atomic Blonde' or 'John Wick.'
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What if everything I thought was wrong with me was actually right with me? You have to have the courage to show who you are to the world.
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I think I just had it by osmosis: an appreciation of Duke Ellington before I really even knew who he was.
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We give great value for our franchisees: They can build a store for well under $200,000. And we have extremely simple operating systems. The preparation is mostly done in front of the customer. That simplicity is really what attracts our Subway franchise. You see it, and you can do it.
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It's all right; it's not so much fun any more.
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One of the things I loved about working on 'Portal' was that we'd get emails from people saying, 'I love to play first-person shooters but my girlfriend won't play them with me. But I got her to play 'Portal' and she had a blast.'
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I have so much respect for my mom and all the women across the world.
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What I know now is that we're all interconnected and that's a really beautiful thing. We have links to everyone else in our lives and in the world. Different people have different journeys for different reasons. You can't judge, but you can celebrate that there are connections everywhere.
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In radio, you are the game, so to speak - you have to describe every aspect. In TV, I've always felt less is more, and it's really a question of my setting up the color analyst more than anything else.
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The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.
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You must feel attractive to be attractive.
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Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.
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I'm an Amazon Prime member. I subscribe to Netflix and Hulu, and they have great user interfaces and some excellent original programs. But what truly distinguishes all three of these services is the utility of their vast libraries of acquired content, which also is a part of what makes each a platform, even if it has a 'house brand,' too.
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I have to paint fast on television because of the limited time, but I don't want people to see what I'm showing them as work, something to worry and fret over. This is supposed to be fun.
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Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores.
