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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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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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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No nation has a single history, no people a single song.
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In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it.
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I was a bad kid. I say this without pride but with a feeling that it is better to say it. I live with one great hope: to help kids who now stand where I stood as a boy. If what I have to say here helps even one of them avoid some of my own mistakes, or take heart from such triumphs as I have had, this book will serve its purpose.
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What you want, Honey you've got it. And what you need, Baby you've got it. All I'm askingIs for a little respect when I come home.
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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.
