Edwin Land Quotes
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Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.
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I've always wanted to do a travel show for people who never thought they could.
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When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.
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My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.
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Is it crazy to say that I don't often eat breakfast? But every time I go to a diner, I have to have a breakfast-type item, even if it's 11:30 at night. I love my morning eats!
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Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
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People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought' - but you've got to have a little bit of a zip.
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At least two or three of the leagues in Europe over the last few months have said to us, 'We hope you go to the Olympics,' and I looked at them, and I said, 'Why?' and they go, 'Because if you don't send NHL players, we have to send our players, and that's way too disruptive to our season.'
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My message with 'LazyTown' has always been really simple; I just want to get kids and families moving together.
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The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.
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So many people have that story as to how they could have maybe won the Indy 500, which is for me the ultimate goal. I would imagine for a lot of people it's the ultimate goal. It's definitely high up on the list.
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Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.
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Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores.
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You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
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I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things.
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I've never stopped loving cartoons. I loved cartoons as a kid. I can still look at them and enjoy them.
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Stardust is the hardest thing to hold out for. You must make of yourself a perfect plane - something still upon which something settles - something like sugar grains on something like metal, but with none of the chill. It’s hard to explain.
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I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn't screw up takes for fun because we didn't have enough film.
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There is nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitor.
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Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.
