Edward T. Hall Quotes
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
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I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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I loved David Lean, he had a huge influence on me when I was going to film school.
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I've always done method acting. I'm a method actor, and I've done that for years. I never did acting and decided to take it seriously because all the parts people want me to do were playing the pretty role. If I want to play someone pretty, I'll play myself.
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I’ve been starvin’ for another taste. Like a dog, you got me on a leash. I’ve been barkin’ at your feet. One more bite is all I need.
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Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
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The information is in the people, not in your head.
