Craig Fairbrass Quotes
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Most of the umpires, it's amazing: 98 percent of them will not hold a grudge. I always felt a couple of them did. I never wanted to argue with an umpire in my life.
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I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.
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I think the over-militarization of local police forces is also true of the over-militarization of the federal government, so I don't really run and hide from the comment that I think there are 48 federal agencies that have SWAT teams.
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It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.
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I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.
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We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.
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You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
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I have learned that I will not pay any attention to anything people say about my movies, because people say things that are all over the place.
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It became my solace. Because it's the only thing structured in my life right now. Training is sort of a therapy session, I guess.
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Wagner is contrapuntal in a philosophical way as well as a musical way. What I mean by that is that every tendency has its opposite, and you see that in the man himself. He's a metaphysical hermaphrodite - he embraces hard and soft, masculine and feminine.
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I know Bo Xilai well. But our relationship was based on our work; we didn't have a personal relationship.
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De-radicalisation begins by breaking down the logic which once seemed unassailable and rethinking what you are fighting for and why. That is hard to do when Islamists and Islamophobes feed off each other's hateful cliches.
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The explosion in access to mobile phones and digital services means that people everywhere are contributing vast amounts of information to the global knowledge warehouse. Moreover, they are doing so for free, just by communicating, buying and selling goods and going about their daily lives.
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It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation.
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He is not mad in the least. He's a very astute person, a clever person.
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What life throws at you - you just have to learn how to hit it, which is a baseball metaphor. The ball's outside, you hit to the right. You don't let them go by.
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I think the Clintons are brilliant. I've never met a person as intelligent as Bill, and I think Hillary is right up there with him. They're too smart for Washington.
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We have to make some movies we have passion for, respect for.
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People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors.
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I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don't want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I'm not afraid to talk money.
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I cannot emphasize just how dangerous it is cycling in the city. Especially now. Even though it is against the law to do this, you'll see people texting while they drive.
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I think when I'm drawing, I'm seeing what's happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in my head.
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As a kid, all I wanted to do was be in a Viking film.
Craig Fairbrass
