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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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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Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
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Basically It's a hypocritical view, because what your saying is it's okay for us to live in the dirt, in the gutter, in less than human conditions, but it's not okay for us to tell people that we are living in these conditions.
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I'm a big cardigan sweater guy.
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What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.
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Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
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I used to think that love was giving up everything of yourself and giving it to the other person. Now, I've realized that love is when you have somebody that doesn't make you give up half of yourself.
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Historical truth and the marketing needs of the movie and television industry remain fundamentally incompatible.
