Leroy Chiao Quotes
Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.
Quotes to Explore
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'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.
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I learned a lot from the various artists I produced. Either you see them doing something that you do want to do it, or you see them doing something the way you don't want to do it.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.
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'Bramhotsavam' is a celebration of families, life and togetherness. It's a film I hold close to my heart.
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My whole thing is feel free to hate me – I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.
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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!
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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
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I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.
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Biographies are, in their nature, far more difficult to make into films than novels, because novels come with plots constructed and dialogue written, whereas I don't invent dialogue for my subjects or plot their lives for them.
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The thing that I guess I've never understood is why people persist that I carried a crown on a pillow to Reverend Moon. I never did. I took it to his wife.
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We were determined to be in the fashion, and to visit the various delightful watering places on Long Island Sound. Of course, it would be necessary to combine business with pleasure and pursue our calling as beggars.
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Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.
