Antony Beevor Quotes
Historical truth and the marketing needs of the movie and television industry remain fundamentally incompatible.

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People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
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It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
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As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
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He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I don't ever remember not praying. Bedtime prayers, the rosary, praying for friends, relatives, for the sick and for those who had died. It was a natural part of our lives.
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I don't really consider myself a black man in Hollywood. I live in Brooklyn... and on purpose.
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Leaving New York and friends is tough, and there are things about it I still really miss. But Montana is a great place to write.
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I see the angel Moroni, standing atop the temple, as a shining symbol of our faith. I love Moroni, because in a degenerate society, he remained pure and true. He is my hero. He stood alone. I feel somehow he stands atop the temple today, beckoning us to have courage, to remember who we are and to be worthy to enter the holy temple, to 'arise and shine forth,' to stand above the worldly clamor and to, as Isaiah prophesied, 'Come to the mountain of the Lord'-the holy temple.
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We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.
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What if I couldn't read? I wouldn't be able to text my friends movie times or even order cheese biscuits from Red Lobster!
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Historical truth and the marketing needs of the movie and television industry remain fundamentally incompatible.