Cliff Burton Quotes
As a kid, I said, 'I want to write for movies.' When I finally had that opportunity it was like I was able to exhale. 'Wow, I'm finally doing this for real.
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Good things happen when you meet strangers.
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I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion is about to kick in.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.
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I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.
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I was lucky enough to go see Steve Jobs with Marc Benioff. We were talking about the iPad, and one of the things Jobs said - and it was a little self-serving - was go and build your iPad app, and that is going to change the way you think about your online app, and you will go back, and you will redo your online app. I believe that.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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If you can be who you are on camera, which is not easy, then I think you're going to be successful.
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I've just always liked watching people dance. I can't explain it. It used to just make me laugh.
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When I set my eyes on the gold at the world championships, I was able to maintain that focus that whole day. That's what I aim to do in Rio - my focus is gold, so I can keep in that good state; I can't get too complacent. I can't relax; I can't be content. I need to be 100 per cent switched on.
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I trust myself, the way I prepare. I feel like I know what I'm doing.
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I'm like anyone; I make a lot of my assumptions about actors I don't know from what I read about them. And then I'll find those judgments are often completely confounded when I meet them in real life.
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As a kid, I said, 'I want to write for movies.' When I finally had that opportunity it was like I was able to exhale. 'Wow, I'm finally doing this for real.
