Neil Cross Quotes
I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s as substitutes for experience.
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The world is always in movement.
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Today, the scope for variety has shrunk drastically. There are only a handful of topnotch composers like A. R. Rahman, Anu Malik, Jatin-Lalit... that's it.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.
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If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.
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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
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I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
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I've got two cows licks; when I was a kid, all the boys in school used to have curtains, and my hair never used to do that, ever! I always used to try, and I always looked like the geek.
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You can't make people be or do what you want. All you can do is be unapologetic about what you want and let others show up however they can.
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People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take them.
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This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.
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I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s as substitutes for experience.
