Ken Adam Quotes
With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity.
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According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.
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I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
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This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.
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The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year.
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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
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Female influence came from my grandmother and my aunt. They would sing Corsican love songs while cleaning the house and dress all in black and say melodramatic things like: 'I want to die.'
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Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia.
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Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.
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I'm an October baby, yes.
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Because I used to go and watch him rehearsing for pantomime, and I have adopted some of those priciples, like try to be on time, learn your script, how he approach it, etc.
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The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.
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With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.
