Augustine Birrell Quotes
It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I don't really like to work with actors that work a lot and are very well established already. In a way, I like to nurture talent and have it burst on the scene.
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My baby is amazing; even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him! He's a big, beautiful boy. He's great.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
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Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no one necessarily knows what you mean by it anyway.
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A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
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I'm Jewish, I can say it. We're storytellers. We were the moneylenders... Therefore we tell great tales to get what we need. I love Jewish men. They make the best husbands.
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The first thing I do each morning is get out of bed and give my dog, Audrey, a hug. She's a Jack Russell. I think having an animal is a wonderful thing, particularly dogs. They are great levelers, there's no nonsense with them, and they just want simple affection.
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Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out of the movie.
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It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.
