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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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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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 was an arrogant man. I not only thought I could manage my life without help, I wanted it that way. I had best-selling books and a TV show and movie contracts; I felt invincible, secure in the thought that everything was my doing. And then, like all arrogant men, I came to stumble.
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The minute my hair went, I shaved it. Thank God it became kind of cool. I just have really big ears.
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My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.
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Wedded love is founded on esteem.
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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
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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.
