Anthony Minghella Quotes
I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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For me, it's always been about preparation, and the more prepared I can be each week, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.
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Those who go along get along.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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We need to be more conversant with it because science is in our lives. It's in everything. It's in the food we eat. It's in the air we breathe. It's everywhere.
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Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny. It's the only one. It's based on thousands of years of human experience. There is nothing narrow about the conservative philosophy. It's a liberating philosophy. It is a magnificent philosophy. It is a philosophy for the ages, for all times.
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The three greatest people in my life were white, OK. My high school coach, my high school superintendent and my mentor in Manhasset, Long Island.
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We're promoting such a narrow version of literacy that we're not including what a lot of boys like.
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I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.
