Kevin Whately Quotes
McQueen is an astonishing film maker. He uses really unusual shots and builds incredible dramatic tension.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
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We are very luck to be women, so even if we're wearing trousers, I always wear them with some lace underwear or a very feminine bra - I like that.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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We owe it to American taxpayers to make sure that contracts intended for small businesses go to small businesses.
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
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We should reserve the notion of 'morality' for the ways in which we can affect one another's experience for better or worse. Some people use the term 'morality' differently, of course, but I think we have a scientific responsibility to focus the conversation so as to make it most useful.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown.
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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.
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One of my intentions with 'Rookie' is for the girls reading it to know that they are already cool enough and smart enough and pretty enough.
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Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
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The only thing I consider appalling would be to suddenly become a vegetable and a burden on other people. A soul slowly dying out, trapped in a body in which the insides gradually sabotage me - that, I think, would be terrifying.
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I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.
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I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.
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Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.
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Don't ever let the other stuff get in the way of your inherent skills as a kick-butt storyteller. Move the reader, make them happy and sad and excited and scared. Make them stare into space after they've put the book down, thinking about the tale that's become a part of them.
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McQueen is an astonishing film maker. He uses really unusual shots and builds incredible dramatic tension.
