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Simon Beaufoy Quotes

I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: british
Birth: 1967

Topics

Training People Start You Place Got

I'd rather go to Vietnam than get married.

Go Vietnam Get Rather Married Than

If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dying of tuberculosis or outhouses in Philadelphia or kids losing their toes because they were living in homes without heat. He took on a battle in 'The Battle with the Slums' - and we won.

Matthew Desmond

Time Losing Writing Battle Living

I used to spend countless days in my teenage years keeping scorecards, playing cricket and just enjoying myself with friends and having the occasional shandy in the bar.

Myself Cricket Friends Bar Days

I've learned over time that human beings tend to want to do more than they have the courage to do or that the social contract will allow them to do.

Courage Time Want Will More Human

There are more kids playing hockey, and the game has become more diverse from a cultural, ethnic and geographic point of view, but we still don't have a lot of congressmen.

Game Hockey View Point Of View More

If you don't believe in yourself, somewhere or another, you sabotage yourself.

Believe In Yourself Yourself Believe

Being a CEO requires a specific skill set, and a background in engineering equips individuals with the ability to plan logically and make decisions that fit properly within the context of the business.

Business Engineering Decisions Plan

I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence.

Enough Innocence I Can Know Done

Like civil-rights protesters who sang rousing hymns as they were carried off to jail, Twitterers are bearing witness to what's happening around them, and calling out into the darkness of cyberspace for confirmation. I'm here. You're here, too. We are present.

Douglas Rushkoff

Darkness Present You Jail Out Here

The economic dimension is very clear. I was at a dinner party, a mother got up, who's a very distinguished scientist, and said she had to get home and help her daughter with her homework. The two waiters, their faces changed. They were working their second jobs, they couldn't get home to help their kids with homework.

Mother Home Daughter Dinner Help Up

I tend to be pretty calm.

Calm Pretty Tend

Nothing from nothing leaves nothing.

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