Beeban Kidron Quotes
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a creative writing course for something different.
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
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People come up and say, 'Hey, I know you!' They're middle-aged women and big burly guys. They say, 'Don't tell anyone, but I watch Felicity, and I think it's great.'
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Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.
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Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
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'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.
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I like to tell people that I have the best job in the media. All I do is hang around with heroes. I do that every week for my 'War Stories' documentary series - and when FOX News wants - I go off and cover the young Americans we send to places like Afghanistan or Iraq.
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I don't plan my roles or my films.
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To be honest, I haven't seen much serious budget planning since the Republicans took control of the House after the 2010 elections and grabbed onto the Senate filibuster. It's not the White House's fault that John Boehner couldn't deliver on a bigger deal.
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I try to cook dinner, but it's difficult when I'm working.
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Whether it's Shakespeare or Moliere, irony is a key component in the construction of theatre. A script would be pretty bad if it was devoid of irony.
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This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away.
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If you have John Goodman in your movie, you want to use him as much as possible.
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If Steven Spielberg brought me a movie four hours long and said, 'It has to go out this way,' I guarantee you that's the way it would go out.
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Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.
