Arthur C. Clarke Quotes
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.
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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves.
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Glamorized... am I glamorous?
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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I've been lucky to have a lot of opportunities to help people.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
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I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
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I'll tell you this: You have to remember to chase and catch your dreams, because if you don't, your imagination will live in empty spaces, and that's nowhere land.
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I think the stakes are always high when you're an artist of color - to get things right, to get things perfect and make everybody happy.
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I could probably do a documentary on acting classes; I've taken so many.
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The next movie will be in Mandarin. I enjoyed shooting all the Japanese stuff in Kill Bill so much that this whole film will be entirely in Mandarin.
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There was no substitute for reality; one should be aware of imitations.
