J. B. Priestley Quotes
Production goes up and up because high pressure advertising and salesmanship constantly create new needs that must be satisfied: this is Admass- a consumer's race with donkeys chasing an electric carrot.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And I've always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I've been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, 'I Wanna Be a Nun,' when I was 25.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
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It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
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I love food - I am never on a diet - I swear to God!
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.
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I was once dressed as a mermaid for a Jean Paul Gaultier show. My legs were bound into a fish tail, so I had to come down the runway on crutches. Halfway down, I was supposed to unzip the fish tail to reveal my legs, but the zipper broke, so I ended up stabbing my fake nail through the fabric of the zipper and ripping my way out.
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Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.
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Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.
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From the director's point of view, it's infinitely easier to do violence than to do a good dramatic scene.
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Production goes up and up because high pressure advertising and salesmanship constantly create new needs that must be satisfied: this is Admass- a consumer's race with donkeys chasing an electric carrot.
