Augustus Quotes
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To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.
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Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
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I am convinced that in order for you, as a patient, to be protected, it has to be transparent, evidence-based, objective information. Not self-serving information. Not pharma-driven information. Not ad-driven information. It is transparent, objective, evidence-based information.
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I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.
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William and I feel that every child deserves to be supported through difficult times in their lives.
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I over-scrutinize anyone new entering my life.
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I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.
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I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.
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In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.
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I'm getting to be a real pro at coming into things midstream and trying to catch up.
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It wasn't easy to get here, and it will not be easy to take my title away from me.
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What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.
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There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind... and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I'll hear a line from a different vantage point and it'll change its meaning. It's something I wrote but it changed because I did.
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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
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Be comfortable. I think if you're comfortable, you exude confidence, and that leads to good style.
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Gay guys love women who are tough, who are survivors. They always call me a diva. And I am a survivor; I've pulled through everything and I've not become bitter about it.
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It's counterintuitive to take a long time to hire someone, but it will save you enormous amounts of time and money later. Our biggest mistakes in hiring stem from speed.
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It's good for me to do things outside my comfort zone and push myself.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
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Synergy is the VCR of media right now - discredited, outdated and left behind.
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I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw, but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging.
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The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been there.
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Festina lente.
