Arthur Holly Compton Quotes
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.
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I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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I was just lucky I lived in this time of mass-market paperbacks.
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It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
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'Collaborator' is a hostage tragicomedy, but it's also, kind of, everything I know about post-war America. Well, not everything, but it does reference a lot of the post-war period.
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When I get some time off, I like to go back to my roots in the North East. My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.
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The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself.
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We didn't ever want 'Tarzan' to feel like he was just a man. We didn't want him to stand up straight or wave good-bye. We wanted to make sure he always had that piece of gorilla in him, that he always had an animal attitude about him.
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My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.
