Anthony Horowitz Quotes
Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
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There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.
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Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?
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All of a sudden, I feel very old and very tired. Maybe when I get to California, the smog, brush fires, floods, and earthquakes will cheer me up.
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If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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Young people are this awesome, creative, hopeful untapped resource out there.
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Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.
