Gavin Hood Quotes
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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I act for love. I give it my all. I would probably still do it even if I wasn't paid at all. But in terms of equal pay, I need to be paid the same as the guy who has equal billing with me. Otherwise, I won't do it. Because if you accept less, you're just letting everyone else down and continuing the cycle.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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Feeling tired should almost never be an excuse, because your body has huge reserves of energy. But if you eat badly, stay out late, drink too much, and so on, you'll pay a price on the course.
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Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.
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My work is about the world I live in. So, I sort of make a picture of my life or our lives. I'm always looking for something that is overlooked, so I need to constantly be aware of what's going on.
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I lived in New York for maybe a year and a half, from '95 to '97, but I live in Dallas. My whole family is there.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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I don't give a toss about being remembered after my death.
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My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.
