Paddy Ashdown (Jeremy John Durham Ashdown) Quotes
We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.Paddy Ashdown
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I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
Rafael Nadal -
I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
Damien Chazelle -
Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
Harrison Ford -
As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.
Vincent Cassel -
Elves are cool, man.
Orlando Bloom -
I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
Odette Annable
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
Parker Posey -
People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
Ian Mckellen -
Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
Patrick Demarchelier -
I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
Natalie Cole -
I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
Kate Grenville -
If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.
Rafe Spall
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With every film, the pressure is on the rise for the next.
Mahesh Babu -
It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
Lady Gregory -
Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.
Earl Butz -
I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.
Ralph Thomas Walker -
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
Barbra Streisand -
If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
Nate Diaz
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I'm like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character.
Andrew Lincoln -
Look at the evidence and to be willing to question your own truths, and to be willing to scrutinize things that you hold dearly because that way, that transparency, that self-awareness, will protect you from ever becoming somebody that whose beliefs somehow make them have myopic vision about what could be.
Jason Silva -
Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.
Kim Campbell -
The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
Ibrahim Babangida -
I'm a freak for great movies. I love movies.
Jeff Garlin -
We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.
Paddy Ashdown