Adrian Lyne Quotes
I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Good design should be honest.
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With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.
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The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.
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I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.
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I respect marriage, and I think it's beautiful that people do it. But for me, more important than anything is having a peaceful life and a peaceful home.
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If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.
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The I of the basic word I-Thou is different from that of the basic word I-It.
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I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values.
