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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A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.
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I care about women's rights and reproductive rights and my gay friends being able to keep their marriages official. You don't want your genre to disown you for it - and I don't think they would now - but you still see that sort of hatred and vitriol that comes with disagreeing with the conservative agenda.
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I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
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Historical truth and the marketing needs of the movie and television industry remain fundamentally incompatible.
