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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I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
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I'm a total rink rat. I can do the toe loop, the lutz, a flip, and the Scholz. That's one I invented. It's like me - you jump, you rotate in the wrong direction, and you land on the wrong foot.
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If you're going to go out doing something, you might as well be fighting for your country or fighting for your life.
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It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant.
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I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life.
