Anthony Minghella Quotes

I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!

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• I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.

  

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• As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.

  

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• I don't know how people recognize me.

  

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• I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.

  

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• We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

  

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• I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.

  

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• We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.

  

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• Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

  

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• Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct.

  

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• Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

  

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• I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.

  

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• I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.

  

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• I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.

  

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• I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.

  

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• Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.

  

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• If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge that the Internet is out there.

  

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• I think the best solution to this challenge, and I accept there is a challenge with homophobic bullying, is to make sure we get rid of the bullying rather than feeling we have to take kids out of our schools and teach then somewhere else. That would be the best approach.

  

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• In the late '70s, I had a band - the David Johansen band, for lack of a better name - and I started collecting, not records, but tapes from people I knew who had jump-blues records.

  

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• Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'

  

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• I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!

  

  Anthony Minghella
  • Kids
  • Clever