Anthony Minghella Quotes
Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market as a novel set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge.
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Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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I have lots and lots of party clothes. I mean real party clothes.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.
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Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.
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Muslims who commit terrorist acts are perverting their religion.
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I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
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The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.
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The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.
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What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff.
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If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.
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The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.
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For me personally, I'm an activist, so I see a lot of turmoil and heartache in the world and tragedy.
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We will fight against good teams.
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It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
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Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies - 'God damn it, you've got to be kind.'
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A dark unfathom'd tide Of interminable pride - A mystery, and a dream, Should my early life seem.
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Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market as a novel set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge.
