Neil Cross Quotes
'Luther' is absolutely a monster-of-the-week show. Although it's post-watershed and is rendered in intense graphic novel-style images, it's inspiration is not that different from 'Doctor Who' as in both cases you've got a trickster figure who fights the monster of the week and is eventually successful.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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We show our faces to support the billions of young people who suffer a lack of education. We show our faces to honour the potential of every young individual on this planet.
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Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
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It used to be that you had to come to Silicon Valley, walk up Sand Hill Road, network with individuals. That's now being completely changed and turned on its head by the whole ICO thing.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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In Arab culture, music is for celebration. You don't play music at funerals.
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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
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I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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I was playing the villain 'Falseface' on Batman, and I got wind that they were going to pay a young starlet $25,000 to be in the same episode. Well, I wasn't getting anywhere near that amount of money, so I refused to let them put my name in the credits.
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I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.
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I'm from a reserve. A reservation. So I know everybody. Everybody knows me.
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The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
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I love bingeing. 'The Wire' was my first binge, and the thing about bingeing is, when you are doing four or five hours a day for a number of days, it becomes a literary experience, closer to reading.
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When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love music.
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Even when I was in my 20s and at my most beautiful, I was never obsessed with my looks. I didn't dye my hair or wear make-up.
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Initially we both did a bit of everything towards making each game but as we began to hire people and the business grew we naturally went in different directions, and away from the coalface of development.
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'Luther' is absolutely a monster-of-the-week show. Although it's post-watershed and is rendered in intense graphic novel-style images, it's inspiration is not that different from 'Doctor Who' as in both cases you've got a trickster figure who fights the monster of the week and is eventually successful.
