Harold Evans Quotes
We always talk about how everyone is unifocal. You can't possibly be interested in jazz and Beethoven. Of course you can. You can't both be reading a newspaper and be online. Of course you can. We shouldn't be obsessed with a gun to your head, 'You either read a newspaper or die!'
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I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.
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But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
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But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
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When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.
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I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.
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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
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People associate girls with long blonde hair with the girls in 'Clueless' or 'Legally Blonde.' You can't be smart and educated and have an opinion because you are supposed to be stupid.
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I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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I realised at a certain point that if I was going to have the kind of life that I fantasised about, I needed to get my act together.
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I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.
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It is personal issues that makes me do what I do, for I have been raped more than 50 times by just listening to what women who have confessed and confirmed their love for other women have been through.
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Who knows ... we'll be playing Jazz and having a good time!
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I'm not interested in how things were, or how we ended up where we are now. What interests me is what we are now and what we will be.
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We always talk about how everyone is unifocal. You can't possibly be interested in jazz and Beethoven. Of course you can. You can't both be reading a newspaper and be online. Of course you can. We shouldn't be obsessed with a gun to your head, 'You either read a newspaper or die!'
