Patrick O'Brian Quotes
I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Sometimes I like to watch TV, though I never get to watch any of the shows in real time. I'm a fan of 'Downton Abbey,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' and 'Boss.' There's a British series called 'Luther,' but in England, they think a series means four episodes. And I like 'Mad Men.' Otherwise, it's always good to unwind with a book.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.
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I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
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Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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People are getting cynical about the news. It doesn't seem like there's one place to watch where you get the straight dope. You watch the channel that proves your point.
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That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.
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To transcend limitations and form positive new patterns of life based on who you know you can be rather than who you were yesterday, you must give up the modes of thinking, feeling and behaving that only keep you chained to your past.
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That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
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Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
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I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life.
