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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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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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 didn't want to be written about as a human-interest story. I didn't want to be a passing thing. You know, now we move on to the fat girl who had her stomach stapled. I didn't want to become a gimmick: the disabled model.
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I am certain that there are extremists on both sides of the gun control debate in Hawaii, as in the rest of the nation. However, it has been our willingness and ability to develop mutually respectful and effective gun control laws that have kept our community safe.
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A newspaper is complete. It is finished, sure of itself, certain. By contrast, digital news is constantly updated, improved upon, changed, moved, developed - an ongoing conversation and collaboration. It is living, evolving, limitless, relentless.
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Yeah, I know what the shrinks say: "Conflict and conflict resolution are the mainstays of human intimacy." That fatuous little axiom may be true, but it presupposes that human intimacy is a desirable thing. I have never been nearly as happy with somebody else in the room as I am when I’m by myself. It seems to me that loneliness is a small price to pay for peace and quiet.
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Historical truth and the marketing needs of the movie and television industry remain fundamentally incompatible.
