George Archer Quotes
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.
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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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Fascism is very much a mob movement.
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Like a lot of people, I'm very, very concerned about Senator Clinton's record. I'm very, very concerned about where her positions were in the 1990s, when we had some of the most disgusting legislation in terms of our criminal justice, really, in this country's history.
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When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
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Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
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Obviously we had to study Shakespeare at school, but to be honest, I was not a fan. I found the language very difficult, and I didn't enjoy watching it or studying it. I auditioned five times for the Royal Shakespeare Company early on in my career, and I didn't even get past the first rounds.
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A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
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What happened in the past can help you know what's going to happen in the future. That insight brings a next level of intelligence not just to sales and marketing but to ERP, where you can save more money in procurement or figure out whether the people you recruit are going to be successful in your organization.
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Colour can raise the dead.
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And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.
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I don't go to fancy Michelin-starred restaurants often.
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Xbox is about to become the next water cooler
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It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
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The types of collection in the book -– microphones and video cameras, TVs that watch us –- are nothing compared to what we have available today. We have sensors in our pockets that track us everywhere we go. Think about what this means for the privacy of the average person.
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On the Internet, people do not know each other, they don’t have common leaders, sometimes not even a common political goal. But they come together on certain issues. I think that is a miracle. It never happened in the past. Without the Internet, I would not even be Ai Weiwei today. I would just be an artist somewhere doing my shows.
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably be a caddie today.
