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Simon Beaufoy Quotes

British audiences are toughest on British films. So often, a British film is the last thing they want to see. If you please them, you really know you've made an impact.

Simon Beaufoy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: british
Birth: 1967

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Impact You Know Want See British

I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less.

Meg Whitman

Business Technology Experience Doing

Getting a team of scientists on Mars could be transformative.

John M. Grunsfeld

Team Mars Could Getting Scientists

Ultimately, when two professionals meet, I don't really see the location as being a defining factor. If you're a psychologically weak fighter, maybe it would be. But if you're a seasoned pro, it doesn't really come into it.

Michael Bisping

You Meet Fighter Weak See Location

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

John Selden

World Without Juggling Cannot

I don't think I've ever come to terms with not having had a father around, and that's why I made so many mistakes with men.

Amanda Eliasch

Father Men Mistakes Think Why Come

A good novelist pays attention to his characters. A good biographer pays attention to the documents before her. A good critic pays close attention to the thing she's brought to evaluate.

Michelle Dean

Good Attention She Critic Her Close

By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation: those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan... In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential.

Joseph Brodsky

Words Society Potential Listen Own

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

Don Marquis

Money Mistakes Ancestors Fair Pay

Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre.

Christopher Eccleston

People Growing Up Theatre Feel Go

I hated turning 40; the whole idea of it stank. But once I got through it, I was fine.

Cindy Crawford

Through Got Fine Whole Idea Hated

We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.

Clare Short

Good Government Chance Need Keep

My personal style statement is very casual. And for me, comfort tops the chart over anything else.

Arjun Kapoor

Style Me Comfort Personal Anything