Antony Beevor Quotes
The reason that 'Stalingrad' took off was because it emphasized the influence of history on the individual.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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It's interesting now that basically a CG set is the same cost as a real set. So like if you're going to build a CG house in the suburbs, it costs you $200,000. And if you were going to build it in a computer, it'll cost you $200,000. It's the same... the relationship is exactly the same.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
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The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.
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The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
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I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.
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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
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I'm an emotional guy.
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110%, or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
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The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.
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The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
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It's always good to be around nice-looking people.
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I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.
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I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
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Look, boys, it ever strike you that the world not real at all? It ever strike you that we have the only mind in the world and you just thinking up everything else? Like me here, having the only mind in the world, and thinking up you people here, thinking up the war and all the houses and the ships and them in the harbour. That ever cross your mind?
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The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
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What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field.
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In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people are saying. I find that kind of speech fascinating but screenwriters never write dialogue like that because it doesn't look good on the page.
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The reason that 'Stalingrad' took off was because it emphasized the influence of history on the individual.
