J. August Richards Quotes
Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.
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I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
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I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.
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Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.
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I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
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Yes, Heathrow is the U.K.'s busiest airport, but new runways or a new airport are not the answer. It is far better to focus on improving capacity.
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With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.
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Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
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If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
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We, some cast members and I, even went on a weekend trip together and spent the weekend at an inn, because we enjoy each other's company so much, and it was so cool.
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All of my career has been an attempt to educate myself and get paid for it.
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I make a film like I cook for friends. I hope they like it, but if they don't, I'm prepared to enjoy it all by myself.
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A deadly sins addendum is long overdue. Life has changed since Pope Gregory the Great scribbled his initial list in the sixth century.
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Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
