George Sutherland Quotes
A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place — like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.
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I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
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Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.
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I made all my generals out of mud.
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On the Web, we can be whoever we wish to be, editing the face we show to others in ways that aren't possible in physical space. We can also fine-tune the complexity and depth of our interactions and relationships.
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For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.
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Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
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It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.
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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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I've made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody - whether it's a guy, a female or a goat - and everybody can relate to that.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
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I'm quite nosy. Somebody will be reading a book on a train, and I'll go: 'How is it? Is it any good?' and they'll be like, 'Yeah, now let me read it.'
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When you meet someone, a friend, who's living out on the road, or living semi-homeless, or leading their life in a radically different way, it makes you think about your own life in a really critical way and feel completely disoriented.
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Sometimes you'll have great actors who aren't comfortable with improvising. Which can get pretty frustrating. But every actor's coming from a different place and they have their own strengths and weaknesses and your job is to sell them as two people in the same world. Some of them have to have their hands held and some I just let loose entirely.
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A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place — like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.
