Antony Johnston Quotes
A 300pp novel can easily become a 200pp novel by printing with smaller type; a 100pp screenplay can potentially become a film of between 60-140 minutes in length; a 200pp stage play could be performed in anything from 30 minutes to four hours. For all these media, the script length is agnostic to the final work.Antony Johnston
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
Nancy O'Dell -
The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
Haile Selassie -
I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
Hannah Kent -
When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
Zig Ziglar -
I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.
Eberhard Weber
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
Pamela Anderson -
He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
Ralph Fiennes -
By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
Larry Kramer -
Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
Om Puri -
I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
Abby Wambach -
I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
Barbara Broccoli
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
Gary Numan -
Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
Lance Henriksen -
For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
Frances Beinecke -
My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
Okky Madasari -
I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
Sam Heughan
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One of the great rewards of a writer's life is that it lets you read all the books you want to without feeling guilty.
Damon Knight -
It takes people a while to trust you.
Karl Malone -
I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.
Barney Frank -
I don't expect anybody to know who I am.
Nathan Fillion -
Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
A 300pp novel can easily become a 200pp novel by printing with smaller type; a 100pp screenplay can potentially become a film of between 60-140 minutes in length; a 200pp stage play could be performed in anything from 30 minutes to four hours. For all these media, the script length is agnostic to the final work.
Antony Johnston