Astro Teller Quotes
Failures are cheap if you do them first. Failures are expensive if you do them at the end.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.
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I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.
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No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.
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I think there are a lot of chefs in D.C. who have made D.C. what it is today. I am very respectful to them. I'm very admiring of what they've done.
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My wife and I ran through 'Justified' in, like, a day. And that is such a funny, amazing show.
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Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - I'm just playing tough.
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Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He's on the brink of his 13th league title, after all.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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Grief causes suffering and disease.
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I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.
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I've never been a shy person. I've always been able to talk pretty well.
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Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.
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I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I've been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me.
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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
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When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.
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I'm in kind of a strange position - I have a strong Australian career and a strong British career. Then there's the American career. For every movie I do here, I do two somewhere else. I bounce back and forth between the three places.
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There must be a lot of shy actor in puppeteering. His work is the puppeteer's statement. It's his outlet. If I had to face the audience myself, as Jim Henson, I'm sure I'd be just a bit shy. But when it's your puppets that face the audience, it's different. That I can do very easily.
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For your friends and family, you are always a champion, but for the media and sponsors, not until you show a spark. Making a champ is more important than celebrating one. I want to be there for youngsters and help them do their best.
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I think soccer in America is growing exponentially, and it's just going to keep getting bigger.
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Failures are cheap if you do them first. Failures are expensive if you do them at the end.
