Leslie Bricusse Quotes
If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it. Anything you want to, do it. Want to change the world? There's nothing to it.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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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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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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The newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.
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I think of everything as comedy, but I don't think of it in terms of sitcom comedy, I think of it in terms of Chekhov comedy. Chekhov called his plays comedies. There's always a mixture of a laugh with sadness. So the plie to the laugh is sadness.
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I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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We must take the profit out of prejudice.
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If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it. Anything you want to, do it. Want to change the world? There's nothing to it.
